Re: Instant Message notifications

[Elia Cogodi <elia cogodi gmail com>]

What about a very small reminder in the bottom-right corner, a simple
small number counter that tells me how many transient notifications
were shown and hidden without interaction since the last time I opened
the message tray? As soon as I open the message tray it's reset and
disappears - until it's >0 again.
That
- doesn't sound too distracting to me
- educates the new user on the fact that the bottom right corner is
actually active and contains some information
- tells me if I have to open the message tray when I am distracted
from the system screen for reasons that that system itself can't know
(I've turned to speak to a co-worker, instead of locking the screen)

Of course, it only works with applications that actually use the
notification system correctly, not with legacy tray notifications just
changing their status icon... but those applications should be fixed
anyway.

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 07:40 +0200, Koppányi Tamás wrote:
>> i am also really hoping that developers wouldfix this. also it would
>> be great if there was better integration for empathy. right now the
>> notification bar icon of empathy is barely cliackable (only the icon,
>> not the text), and while the chat windows stay on the notification
>> bar, but they have no sign that there might be new messages. last time
>> i complained about this i got a reply that after being away from the
>> computer for some time, the notification bar comes up to show you if
>> there was something happening. while this is good, but since empathy
>> windows look all the same if there was something happening or if not,
>> i have to look through each icon manually (click them one by one,
>> since mouseover also doesn't show anything). now this is even a bigger
>> distraction, since because i'm affraid i'll miss some essages, i keep
>> checking the messaging windows constantly, instead of focusing on my
>> work.
>
> Right - we've been through this before, but this is a good way of
> looking at it. Like the others, I find that the current notification
> system does not work well for synchronous chat systems (IRC in my case)
> that are really important: obviously a lot of Fedora work goes through
> IRC so when someone pings me on IRC it really matters, but it's easy to
> miss a transient notification. I've developed a workflow workaround -
> every few minutes I either manually open the notification tray and look
> for the xchat bubble, or alt-tab to the xchat window - but as Koppanyi
> neatly points out, our having to do this is completely destroying the
> concept behind the transient notifications, and we're actually _more_
> distracted than we were before.
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    Elia