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[Scott Kitterman <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Mike Rooney" <mrooney@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Jeremy Nickurak <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
>
>I think it's awesome, and the small number of complaints compared to the
>millions of Ubuntu users seems to agree. I can't stand systems that use
>notifications that pop-up and get in the way of my workflow. I admit to
>having thought the idea of removing actions was bad, but after using it for
>a bit I can't imagine going back.

You realize that actions and persistence are not directly related to each other, right?  For example, in KDE virtually all (maybe all) actions are non-persistent, but they can still have actions, 

Scott K