On 16/09/10 16:25, Conscious User wrote: > Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 à 13:29 +0100, Luke Benstead a écrit : >> >> On 15 September 2010 17:25, Greg K Nicholson <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 15 September 2010 16:54, Conscious User >> <conscioususer@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> > I know it's the space for the confirmation bubbles, but I >> think it >> > would be much better if those appeared in another place >> entirely, >> > like a bottom corner. >> >> >> I've suggested before that synchronous notifications (e.g. >> volume) >> should appear horizontally centred. Then the asynchronous >> notifications (IM etc.) can appear immediately below the top >> panel, at >> the right. >> >> No-one has come up with any drawback whatsoever to this design >> —yet ;) >> -- >> Greg >> >> >> >> >> That's definitely the best solution I've heard yet. Why are we not >> doing that? >> >> Luke. > As a matter of fact, because the confirmation bubbles have a fixed > size, they can be placed pretty much anywhere with little issues. > > If I were to guess the reason of the current placement, is that the > designers believe that giving the user two different places from > which bubbles can come from is confusing. Can someone confirm? We want to keep notifications and indicators in relatively close proximity. Synchronous (keyboard-response, user-generated, self-overwriting) notifications like volume-up and -down are on top, because that area has more precious content (firefox search, for example) than the area just below it, and because they are fixed-size, where the async ones are variable-size. Mark
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