Re: notifications (window hints)

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 17:01 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:

> Now you've made me think about it, I think my problem is your first
> point: in the case of IRC I at least really *want* the app to demand my
> attention. Politely requesting it for two seconds just isn't enough; I
> can easily completely miss the very polite 'notification' action if I'm
> engrossed in something else (it's happened to me multiple times today
> already). It's just not enough poke to get through to me unless I'm
> doing absolutely nothing else at the time.
> 
> (there's a vaguely related buglet here which is that the notification
> system doesn't account for dual screens at all; to get the notification

thinking about it even further, dual screens may come into it in a
different way. The notification animation, restrained as it is, happens
entirely on the primary screen. Nothing at all happens on the secondary
screen when a notification occurs. I split up tasks kind of equally
between my screens; if I'm reading a web page, which happens on my
'secondary' screen, it makes it even easier to miss the notification
event. I guess if Shell learns to deal with dual screens properly and
does something on both screens when a notification occurs, the problem
I'm having might be mitigated.
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