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On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 15:19 -0400, Alex Launi wrote:
> A bit ago I did my set of updates, which included the new release of
> notify-osd, which are placed a bit lower than midway down the screen.
> Putting these that far down the screen is really disrupting, and much
> more flawed than their original position. The biggest problem is that
> the information they present is entirely abstract, and disjointed from
> everything else happening on my desktop. In the top right they are
> visually connected to the notification area, where other system info
> is presented, so I am given an area where I can find my system status
> of various kinds, battery, wifi, time, and with notifications
> messages. Moving the notifications down the screen completely breaks
> this association, and causes a serious disruption of my workflow as I
> try and figure out what the bubble is related to, why it's in the
> middle of my screen, whether or not I should report a bug (I know this
> one is not a concern basic users will have, but it's not a very
> important one so let's not dwell on it), and when it's going to go
> away because being in the middle of the screen it's actually covering
> content, not just some window chrome. In fact, as I was typing this
> email a tweet popped up and blocked right where my cursor was and I
> had to stop typing and wait for it to go away so that I could see what
> I was doing; I was completely interrupted by it which breaks a core
> design goal of notify-osd.
> 
> This experiment should definitely be called unsuccessful and
> notifications should return to their sane place of top-right.
> 
> -- 
> -- Alex Launi

FWIW , my exact same reasoning 4 months ago fell on deaf ears >
https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg00106.html

The bubbles seem very unprofessional.

Well, these arguments will only be dismissed as "People will always
resist to change" ;)

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Cheers,
mac_v