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[Mark Shuttleworth <mark.shuttleworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mirco Müller wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 28.08.2009, 09:30 +0100 schrieb Mark Shuttleworth:
>
>   
>> ...
>> Mirco, is there any way to know, when the notification appears, how
>> long the mouse has been stationary?
>>     
>
> 	Yes, that should be doable. I'll give that a try today and let you
> folks know about the outcome.
>   
OK, just let us know if it's *possible*. I'm thinking that we might
leave the fade if the mouse has moved in the past 5 seconds on the basis
that your eye is likely to be tracking the mouse. But if the mouse has
been still, we wouldn't fade because you just left the mouse there from
previous work.

This would be pretty fragile to small accidental nudges of the mouse, so
I don't think we should implement it yet, but I'd like to know how much
we can cheaply determine about the mouse's behaviour in the past few
seconds. I do *not* want notify-osd to be eating CPU cycles watching the
mouse all the time, though :-)

> 	So, we let "fade-prevention" and "vertically centered position" live
> for a few days (a day before UI-freeze!?) to collect more feedback to
> better feel the trend of their reception. At that point we'll see which
> of these we switch back.
>   
The timing is not ideal, these were clearly-specified changes before UDS
and should have been implemented early in the cycle.

Mark

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