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[Toni Ruottu <toni.ruottu@xxxxxx>]

> The Ubuntu User Experience is aimed to be usable, helpful, unobtrusive,
> evolving, stable, powerful beautiful, simple, consistent, customizeable,
> and warm.

+1 unobtrusive ;-)

Some other Linux-based systems never call for your attention. One of
Ubuntu's strengths is that it tells you when something important
happens. eg. security updates are available. Designing notifications
that do not disturb users work flow is one of the most important goals
for future, and I've been happy to see Ubuntu takes it seriously by
exploring various notification techniques. Turning this into a formal
specification may be hard, but probably worth the effort, where as the
new notification APIs already draw some rough characteristics.

  --Toni