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[Allan Caeg <allancaeg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the feedback. That reminded me of the new feature of
notify-osd that hides it under a window that is set fullscreen. That's
just a side effect of the bug fix for flickering windows but it's also a
good example of being unobtrusive because it avoids disturbing the user
who is focusing on the "fullscreened" window :)

On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 14:19 +0300, Toni Ruottu wrote:
> > 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