On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Conscious User
<conscioususer@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'd rather have the message just pop up in front of me then have to go
> through a menu. That is about as close to real life as you can get.
Disagreed. In real life, sometimes when someone calls "hey, do you have
a sec?" and you are very focused and want to finish something first,
you can turn your head and say "just a couple of secs" or make a "two"
sign with your hand, or something, without actually interrupting your
workflow.
A window popping up in front of you would be the equivalent of the
person waving the hand in front of you and only stopping when you
explicitly shove it away.
I think something as intrusive as popups are only acceptable for
urgent things like disk running out of space.
If you really are that busy, you should be able to turn on a "busy" mode, where only the icons change color, and no notification appears. Currently, when I get a message, I like to respond to it, but after reading it, I am forced to either click on the menu, click on the person who messaged me, and then type my response. In Gnome Shell, i can simply go down to the bottom right, and reply right from the notification. Although this is somewhat intrusive, it is really just a bit more intrusive than ubuntu's notify-osd. However, it more easily connects the notification with an action, thus doing the notification's purpose better. If you are too busy, then you could tell that to the system, and it would acknowledge that, and more discretely notify you.