Re: [Ayatana] Farewell to the notification area

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Jim Rorie wrote on 22/04/10 01:42:
>...
> A prominent example is that of the music player.  Short of having a
> window open to get in your way, the NA icon gives you a way to control
> the player with a minimum number of clicks and no window management
> issues.  I fear that embedding a player in yet another level of
> hierarchy is going reduce usability in the march to bring order to the
> desktop.  
> 
> In short, what provisions have you made to provide the same short cut
> functionality without introducing additional clicks?

Much of the time you won't need to switch to the player; you'll be able
to perform common actions directly from the menu.

> 2) I personally tweak the update notifier on all my machine (internal
> and ones I build for others) to revert the old notification icon
> scheme. It saves me a lot of trouble and questions, particularly with
> people that are not particularly computer literate.  A lot of people do this.
> It's a pretty popular mod.  
> 
> I have been silent on the update manager issue in the hopes that a sane
> solution would present itself.  It hasn't.  Now you are forcing our
> hand. So I submit.  What do you intend to do to resolve that fact that
> the update manager pops down on the desktop like the old X-10 web ads
> that we all utterly despised? :/
>...

Primarily, simplifying the alert.
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdateHandling#alert>

Secondarily, working on ways to reduce its frequency without
compromising security. One example is increasing the proportion of
people who download updates in the background and install them at
shutdown. Another is prompting people to install any pending updates at
the same time as they install an application in Ubuntu Software Center.

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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