Re: Message Tray design is intrusive

[Summers Pittman <secondsun gmail com>]

On Sun 12 May 2013 12:06:13 PM EDT, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Summers Pittman <secondsun gmail com
> <mailto:secondsun gmail com>> wrote:
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>     On 05/12/2013 10:39 AM, Rahul Jain wrote:
> >     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
> >
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>     A better workaround the the one I PMed you with is running
>     'Main.messageTray._checkTrayDwell = function() {}' in Looking Glass.
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> The utility of the "check tray dwell" depends on if you have the new
> pressure sensitivity feature available. Are you running GNOME 3.8 or
> Ubuntu?

I'm not, but I can't speak for OP.

However, I've only tested my dirty hack on Gnome 3.6 on Fedora Core 18.

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>   Jasper