Re: [Usability]Re: Notification Area guidelines

[Wesley Leggette <wleggette gate net>]

On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 20:38, 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.

This is a really good idea. Sort of like the bouncing in the OS X dock.

> 
> Havoc
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