Hello. This is my first post here as a Shell user. I think
the recent design of the message tray is very intrusive. Even
in Windows 8, I admire their utilization of hot corners in a
manner that is non-intrusive to the work that you are doing.
For example, top-right hot corner triggers control icons in
the side, when you mouse over the icons, they get highlighted,
but nothing gets activated until you actually specify a mouse
click. It does not disable your desktop! It does not steal
focus from your applications either. However, the message tray
in Gnome disables your entire desktop. Accidentally bringing
it up is common also, even with pressure sensitivity. And it
intrudes upon your work. In a desktop, it is hard to follow
your mouse and be extremely careful abut it's placement. The
Activities corner is okay since you don't really work near
there. But you have to be extremely careful with the mouse,
because if you leave it for two seconds to the bottom edge, it
takes away app focus and disables your desktop completely.
This design is dysfunctional. You can't expect your users to
watch their mouse vigilantly every second. I suggest a less
intrusive design that does not disable your desktop or take
away focus at all, the early versions of Gnome Shell were MUCH
better in respect to the message tray behaviour. I would like
to hear the opinions of other users also, and if people agree,
maybe a bug could be filed by someone. Thanks.
Rahul J
