Re: [Usability]Re: Notification Area guidelines
- From: Rodney Dawes <dobey free fr>
- To: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- Cc: Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>, Evan Martin <martine cs washington edu>, Alex Duggan <aldug astrolinux com>, usability gnome org, desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [Usability]Re: Notification Area guidelines
- Date: 11 Mar 2003 21:43:52 -0500
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 21:38, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:59:20PM +1300, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > And therein lies the problem. Such behaviour confuses the meaning of
> > the "close" button. I don't think we want such confusion in GNOME thank
> > you very much :-)
>
> Agreed. Using the notification area as some kind of weird alternative
> to minimization seems pretty wacky.
>
> We *can* trivially add the ability for the minimized app buttons in
> the window list to support things like flashing, or tooltips, or
> whatever. So if "rich minimized state" is wanted, we can do that
> without adding a new kind of minimization.
Does the URGENT wm hint cause the tasklist buttons to flash? If not, it
should. I believe there is a bug on this, no? If it's trivial, can we
get it in sometime soon? :)
-- dobey
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