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[Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27/05/10 15:09, Conscious User wrote:
> Le jeudi 27 mai 2010 à 15:59 +0200, dani planas armangue a écrit :
>   
>> much is this talking about the windicators but little or nothing about
>> the replacement of a vital part as the status bar. This mcokup shows a
>> banshee redesign proposed by me and shows the notifications of the
>> window (similar to the notifiers bubble)
>>
>> normal:
>>
>> http://img72.imageshack.us/f/img72/449/statusbarmessages0.jpg
>>
>> mouseover:
>>
>> http://img526.imageshack.us/f/img526/5694/statusbarmessages01.jpg
>>
>>
>>
>> Daniel Planas
>>     
> Isn't it too large? Why not take the Google Chrome approach and
> leave it in the corner and only as large as needed? The way I
> see it, the status bar is supposed to be something the user
> looks at because he *wants to*, and therefore shouldn't be
> designed for calling attention.
>   
+1. Also, from a styling perspective, I would keep this "in plane" (so
gray rather than black). It's not an external overlay, as notify-osd is,
it's aprt of the window.

Mark

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