Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

[Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 11:11 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> On 15/03/10 16:15, Akshay Gupta wrote:
> > 1.) Make the OSD customizable 
> >      * setting up persistence time
> >      * UI modifications over a basic structure
> >      * Font size/style
> >      ...other similar stuff we can decide upon.
> OK
> 
> > 2.) Most of the above things would be customized by an OSD Manager
> > that could handle all those by a native GTK+ application.
> > 3.) Implementing unresolved work in the Design Specs. 
> >
> > A few design features that I have in mind (possibly conflicting from
> > the specs in the wiki) :
> >
> > 1.) Stacking, that'd make the bubbles dock downwards as they are
> > initiated and start to stack up as the bubble times finish away.
> 
> Please, no. I would urge Mirco NOT to take patches that introduce that
> sort of behaviour. We are trying to build clean and tested codebases,
> and the more alternative pathways we support, the less maintainable it
> becomes.
> 
> The design experience of Notify-OSD is what it is. Changing the style is
> one thing, changing the behaviour of the bubbles is another thing
> entirely. We are just NOT going to support simultaneous display, the
> design is queued and serialized.
> 
> > 2.) A close button on the corner of the bubble as soon as a mouseover
> > occurs (like Growl, instead of disappearing away)
> 
> Same. The design of Notify-OSD is specifically not clickable, and we
> would NOT accept patches to change that.
> 
> Mark
> 
I completely agree with the no clicking and no moving around of
notification bubbles. Looking at notify-osd in lucid it looks great as
it is. Maybe make them a little more see through by default but other
than that the behaviour is just right. 

--fagan