Re: [Ayatana] unity and notifications

[Michael Jonker <citizen.jonker@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry I wasn't around for the initial discussion :)

Yes it does fade, but is still there. For me, it is still difficult to
work with an app below this faded notification, eg.

1) In Gimp I am working heavily with layers, creating new iterations of
a scene at a workrate of about 1 second per scene. A notification pops
up and obscures the list at the top of the Gimp layers dialogue
sufficiently to make it unusable. I now have to wait about 5 seconds for
it to go away. My point is that a x (close) button would dismiss this
intrusion to my focussed work immediately - or - moving the notification
to a position I can accept will give me the best of both worlds.
re-arranging my gimp dialogues should not have to be an option. 

2) I get a new mail notification. I have 5 different mailboxes. Firstly,
I have to click on the green envelope to get to Evolution. This takes me
a default list of all my accounts where I have to mine down through the
list to get to my new mail. I think it would be great if I click on the
notification it takes me directly to Evolution with the mailbox in which
my new message has arrived already selected.

3) A torrent has just finished downloading and a notification pops up. I
can't do anything with the notification - I have to mine down through a
link somewhere else on the system to get to Transmission. I want to just
click on the notification and Transmission automatically pops up.

To give credit where it is due - another popular and invasive OS does it
very well, albeit the notification is usually about installing some
nefarious piece of software update, and thus annoying by virtue of it's
purpose.  

On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 21:07 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 18:35 +0100, Michael Jonker wrote:
> > this can get in the way - especially considering that many apps,
> > especially on the graphics sides of things, have their toolbar in that
> > location. I have been caught a few times where I have had to wait for
> > the notification to fade out before I could continue working.
> 
> But Ubuntu notifications fade out as soon as you move the mouse there
> (or do I misunderstand you?).
> 
> This was /the/ big change in Ubuntu's notifications a few releases ago,
> and along with the non-existing close button in the bubble it caused a
> lot of controversy initially. I think this worked out pretty great in
> the end and diminished the obtrusiveness of bubble notifications.
> 
> 
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