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[Jeremy Nickurak <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We've been pushing this 'ethereal notification' idea for a long time. Has
anybody outside Ubuntu picked up on it? Why or why not? Is it a direction
that should be continued on, or is a course-change required?

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:54, Scott E. Armitage <
launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> One comment off the bat:
>
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Akshay Gupta <kitallis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 2.) A close button on the corner of the bubble as soon as a mouseover
>> occurs (like Growl, instead of disappearing away)
>>
>
> This interferes with the idea of notifications being ethereal -- as it
> stands, if I want to close an app whose close box is hidden by a
> notification, it doesn't change my work flow, I simply click /through/ the
> notification.
>
> The addition of a close button on the corner of the notification would
> block this action under certain circumstances, and could also lead to
> dismissing a notification that I didn't intend to dismiss.
>
> -Scott
>
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> Space Flight Laboratory
> University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
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