Re: [Evolution-hackers] Re: [Evolution] Evolution 2.0 UI proposal

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 21:10, Marc Schwartz wrote:

> I would agree with that as long as there is an option to have both a
> visual (ie. blinking bell icon in the notification area) and a user
> definable auditory alarm (ie. WAV file) to ensure that your attention is
> acquired.

Hmm, not quite so convinced about using it for alarms as I was for email
notification :)  At least until the notification area gets something
like XP's status "balloons"[1], things happening in the notification can
be quite easy to overlook (which is partly the point of having it in the
first place), so I'm not sure if you'd want time critical things
appearing there.  It could certainly be an option, though.

Some notification area guidelines in the HIG would help too, I'm working
on that :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104641 

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