Re: [Usability]Re: Notification area (was: Music player UI)

[Mark Finlay <linuxexpert eircom net>]

> > > I'd be all for removing the concept of applet altogether, personally,
> > > but I guess enough l337 h4c|<3r5 would be against the idea of not being
> > > able to have a cdplayer applet or something (which is silly, given that
> > > gnome-cd now has a status icon ;-)
> > 
> > Which requires a click to get a menu, rather than providing buttons and
> > 'status' right there in front of you. The CD player notification icon is
> > another misuse of the notification area.
> 
> The notification area also kinda sucks for notification.  A little icon
> on your panel changing is completely not noticable.  If the balloon
> popups were used (those are still part of the spec, no?) it might be a
> lot better; I haven't seen an app that uses those yet tho.

Have you ever used redhat8.0? Flashing red dot is actually very
noticable. I'm pretty sure that it is establised that anything flashing
on a screen will grab attention. that's why animations on websites are
so distracting and annoying. 

So if it is really necessary attention can be drawn to the notification
area.

As for baloon, please no. Maybe it's just the implementation, but I HATE
these on window XP.

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