Re: [Ayatana] replace status bar mockups

["Scott E. Armitage" <launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interaction with clicking? Oh, please, no! In fact, if your mouse even goes near it, it should move away or become transparent. Status bars are informational, not interactional. (Hmm, not a word, but maybe it should be).

-S

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Dani, beautiful action that speaks louder than words ;)
Let's hear what it says:

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 22:51, Scott E. Armitage <launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I like them in general, but I have some reservations.

1. They still seem pretty big (i.e. not very "tight", as Mark put it). I already find many of the controls on those screenshots to be quite large, and everything starts adding up to eat up our screen space.

I think what we see on the Wiki page is already pretty awesome!
 

1. Do we need them to be shaded? Status bars will be displaying on screens that are relatively busy already; Chrome's status bar overlays are a solid colour with no frills.

Shading them is necessary only, if consistent with related events. On the long run, we want to let the WM decide about shading alone.
 

1. Do we need the icon? What purpose does it serve? Is there some other way we can provide this functionality without adding them to the status bars?

The (i) icon makes sense when the notification has more details or even interaction to offer upon "click".

Beautiful work! Thank you again ;)

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Scott Armitage, B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. candidate
Space Flight Laboratory
University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
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