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[Celeste Lyn Paul <celeste@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> At the risk of sounding facetious, we are talking about *ephemeral*
>> notifications, correct? Somewhere along the line the vocabulary was
>> changed and it took me a few emails to realise people weren't talking
>> about look and feel. Unless light, airy, and tenuous is some high
>> level experience goal for the notification design.
>
> I think the word "ethereal" is being used in the "cannot be touched"
> (cannot be interacted with) sense.

So this is different from the original definition that notifications
are ephemeral, meaning information of the moment? Or is this in
addition to?



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Celeste Lyn Paul
KDE Usability Project
KDE e.V. Board of Directors
www.kde.org