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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Diego Moya wrote on 17/09/10 07:10:
>...
> I though we already established that notifications are even less
> important than the least important of the user tasks? That's the only
> possible justification for them being ethereal.
> 
> I think it was Jef Raskin who said that you should treat user input as
> sacred. I concur, and that can be extended to the user focus of
> attention. 

Well, Jef had some odd ideas about user input and focus of attention. He
thought, for example, that error messages should behave rather like
Notify OSD bubbles, undismissable and gradually fading, but that there
should be a keyboard command to adjust their transparency ("The humane
interface", pp116-117 <http://ur1.ca/1nklv>). And he thought it would
make sense to insert incoming e-mail messages into whatever document you
were editing at the time (p176 <http://ur1.ca/1nkq9>).

> If the notification is important enough to interrupt the user flow then
> a transient bubble notification is not the place for it, it should
> create a persistent warning in the panel.
>...

Persistent warning, yes. In the panel, usually not. :-)
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDesignGuidelines>

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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