Re: [Usability] Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Rhythmbox tray icon - again

[Vidar Braut Haarr <vidar coretrek com>]

> > > > If its a popup, could you not force it to show for x amount of seconds
> > > > then hide again?
> > However, if the application is trying to notify the user because it 
> > needs him to do something, then I don't think balloon tips that 
> > auto-hide is a very good idea.
> Would it not be good then to have different message classes - i.e.,
> "information popup" (fades/hides after time), "error popup" (stays there
> until dismissed by users), and "critical popup" (irritates hell out of
> user w/ flashing, modality, whatever until she deals with it) ?

Perhaps. They could use the same icons as alerts (specified by the HIG).
I think this would function best using a desktop-wide notification 
system, were the application could interface with some sort of 'server' 
(I have not enough knowledge about X11 or GNOME to elaborate further, or 
to know if something like this exists today), and the desktop (GNOME) 
would show the notification to the user (or send him an email or 
whatever, based on his preferences).

> Other events might have other requirements tho - for example, a new IM
> notification in GAIM should stay until the user opens it, but it's not
> an error condition - perhaps just make another "long-term popup" class
> that hast he same behaviour as the error class?
Perhaps. The usecases needs to be documented.

Or if it was implemented in GNOME, we could have a little window with a 
list of notifications, or something similar.

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Vidar Braut Haarr
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