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[Jonathan Meek <shrouded.cloud@xxxxxxxxx>]

An addendum to my previous email, RE: learned behaviors.

By this I mean the tendency of Windows users to accumulate cruft in their
system tray and ignore it. I'm just as guilty as the next man. I've no idea
if this issue exists for OS X users however, would love to hear a follow up
about such.
On May 15, 2012 12:33 AM, "Jonathan Meek" <shrouded.cloud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think this raises a more important issue: If an indicator remains miss
> able (as I believe it was said messaging menu suffers from as well) does
> this mean we're doing indicators wrong or is it down to learned behaviors
> working against users?
>
> In other words why aren't indicators indicating?
>
> I think this warrants further exploration or potential follow up (or going
> back and truing the original spec as suggested) before we write things off
> completely. It may be the fact that we can't be privy to internal
> communications but it feels like we're saying 'it doesn't work so we'll
> change it.' Instead of 'well why doesn't this work and how can we improve
> the existing design?'
>  On May 14, 2012 5:07 PM, "Loris Zinsou" <the-lz-himself@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>> I have just noticed this :
>> So long, printing menu, we hardly knew you
>>
>> In Ubuntu 12.04, a printing status menu appears whenever any print jobs
>> are in progress. Unfortunately, it’s not that noticeable.
>>
>> So in 12.10, we plan to replace it with a temporary printing item in the
>> launcher. This will correspond to a minimized window listing your recent
>> print jobs. You can close it when done, or just ignore it, as you see fit.
>>
>> (source : http://design.canonical.com/2012/04/status-menus/ )
>>
>>
>>
>> Why don't use the "blue color blinking" (as well as the "job started" and
>> "job complete" notifications) when a printing task is ongoing instead of
>> using some space in the launcher ?
>> To me, this would be consistent with the output notification logic : for
>> sound, you get a notification of what's going on ("next song"..., as well
>> as the blue coor blinking).
>>
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