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[Tyler Brainerd <tylerbrainerd@xxxxxxxxx>]

the quick version would probably be best. as in #1

could it work as a user activated notification? i guess for replies, it
would be better to have an actual temporary window.

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>wrote:

>
> > The simplest answer would be to say that the click should take you as
> > close to the "thing you clicked on" as possible.
> >
> > So, for example, if the messaging app is saying "Jane Silber     14m"
> > (i.e. you got a message from Jane Silber 14 minutes ago) and you click
> > on it, you want to see that message. If it's saying "Ayatana, the n...
> > (23)" (i.e. there are 23 new comments on your blog post) then clicking
> > that should take you to where you can see those 23 messages most
> > immediately.
>
> That gives two possibilities for Gwibber that I can think of now:
>
> 1) Opening a small window, exclusive for that specific message (or
> perhaps the thread it is included on), like I suggested before.
>
> 2) Automatically focusing and scrolling a stream to place the
> specific message on top, and perhaps highlight it with a
> different color. This is a problem when Gwibber has multiple
> streams open. Some sub-possibilities are:
>
>  a) Do that on the first stream (for example from left to
>     right) that contains the post. If no stream contains
>     the post, open a new one that does.
>
>  b) Always open a new, temporary stream exclusively for
>     the unread messages.
>
> I like (1), particularly if Gwibber intends to support
> Facebook/identi.ca threads in the future.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
>
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