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["Scott E. Armitage" <launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interaction with clicking? Oh, please, no! In fact, if your mouse even goes
near it, it should move away or become transparent. Status bars are *
informational*, not *interactional*. (Hmm, not a word, but maybe it should
be).

-S

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Thanks Dani, beautiful action that speaks louder than words ;)
> Let's hear what it says:
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 22:51, Scott E. Armitage <
> launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I like them in general, but I have some reservations.
>>
>>    1. They still seem pretty big (i.e. not very "tight", as Mark put it).
>>    I already find many of the controls on those screenshots to be quite large,
>>    and everything starts adding up to eat up our screen space.
>>
>>
> I think what we see on the Wiki page is already pretty awesome!
>
>
>>
>>    1. Do we need them to be shaded? Status bars will be displaying on
>>    screens that are relatively busy already; Chrome's status bar overlays are a
>>    solid colour with no frills.
>>
>>
> Shading them is necessary only, if consistent with related events. On the
> long run, we want to let the WM decide about shading alone.
>
>
>>
>>    1. Do we need the icon? What purpose does it serve? Is there some
>>    other way we can provide this functionality without adding them to the
>>    status bars?
>>
>>
> The (i) icon makes sense when the notification has more details or even
> interaction to offer upon "click".
>
> Beautiful work! Thank you again ;)
>



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Scott Armitage, B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. candidate
Space Flight Laboratory
University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
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