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[Roth Robert <evfool@xxxxxxxxx>]

I did not consider the toolbar being there as a problem, just like there was
no problem with notifyOSD notifications appearing on the top of window
controls, because when the user hovers the mouse over the notification, it
becomes almost invisible, and it sits on top of the toolbar just for a few
seconds anyway. The base of the idea is that focusing on smaller screens
should not mean forgetting about Desktop or Laptop users with larger
screens... imagine a notification appearing on the bottom left side that
something has started - for example a download - then to check the progress
of it you will have to look at the opposite corner.
Another problem is that some apps use the bottom right corner for some
notifications - for example Mozilla products - that means that some
app-specific notifications appear in the bottom left corners, other (Mozilla
based) appear in the bottom right corner, and the system notifications in
the top right corner. (That means three different places to notify the user
about something - total confusion) If people have firefox-notifyosd
installed, than this is simplified a bit. IMO it would be the best solution
to have all the notifications in the top right corner - system notifications
in the top-right corner of the desktop, and app-specific notifications in
the top-rigth corner of the windows.

Robert


On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 03/05/10 13:22, Roth Robert wrote:
> > Another tiny detail I have a problem with... having progress status
> > indicators on the top right side and having the transient status
> > message appear on the bottom left side seems strange... do the status
> > messages have to appear on the bottom left? Until now it was fine
> > because the progress indicator was in the statusbar and the status
> > message also, but these belong together in my opinion. What if they'd
> > appear below the windicators for a short time?
>
> That's an interesting idea. One issue might be that the toolbar usually
> shows right below the window title, and it's harder to imagine the
> status message over the toolbar than over the content.
>
> > Going even further with the idea... what if they would be NotifyOSD
> > messages with smaller bubble, font, and positioned below the window
> > border?
>
> We *could* do an overlay, yes.
>
> Mark
>
>