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On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 18:06, Jeremy Nickurak <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 03:00, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>>
>> 1.  I want to leave home/work/wherever, and log out / shut down / take
>>    my USB key with me. Has the download/copy/whatever finished yet?
>>    That doesn't require "persistent awareness"; it requires the OS to
>>    tell me, when I try to log out / shut down / disconnect the USB key,
>>    "whoa, you shouldn't do that yet, I'm still working".
>
>
> This assumption breaks down badly when the first step of the process is
> "Close my laptop lid, triggering standby, and thus hiding any visual
> feedback it could give". You could have some kind of a loud warning noise in
> this case I suppose...
>
>
i think matthew was especially right about how hiding it upon "idle" or
displaying it as an animation in its resting state doesn't make a difference
to the mind..
Perhaps i'm exaggerating a little with the implementation as an indicator,
but somehow i'm confident it is not wrong to dream some more over this..