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[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>]

Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 à 13:29 +0100, Luke Benstead a écrit :
> 
> 
> On 15 September 2010 17:25, Greg K Nicholson <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         On 15 September 2010 16:54, Conscious User
>         <conscioususer@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>         > I know it's the space for the confirmation bubbles, but I
>         think it
>         > would be much better if those appeared in another place
>         entirely,
>         > like a bottom corner.
>         
>         
>         I've suggested before that synchronous notifications (e.g.
>         volume)
>         should appear horizontally centred. Then the asynchronous
>         notifications (IM etc.) can appear immediately below the top
>         panel, at
>         the right.
>         
>         No-one has come up with any drawback whatsoever to this design
>         —yet ;)
>         --
>         Greg
>         
>         
>         
> 
> That's definitely the best solution I've heard yet. Why are we not
> doing that?
> 
> Luke.

As a matter of fact, because the confirmation bubbles have a fixed
size, they can be placed pretty much anywhere with little issues.

If I were to guess the reason of the current placement, is that the
designers believe that giving the user two different places from
which bubbles can come from is confusing. Can someone confirm?