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

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 00:56, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> Konfabulator creates interactive 'widgets' on the desktop. The desktop isn't
> a very good location for stuff like that. Why would you want something that
> was out of window manager control, and underneath everything else? Makes no
> sense.

Hmm, if that was entirely true, would people be so keen on having $HOME
as their desktop?  Seems to me people are prepared to go to reasonable
lengths to look at/manipulate things behind their windows if there's a
good enough reason to do so, not that I can be bothered myself
admittedly :)

(Why shouldn't I be able to run my stock ticker stretched across my
desktop background if I want to, for example?  Enough of it would still
peek through between the windows to make it useful...)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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