Re: [Usability] notification - design proposal

[Joaquin Cuenca Abela <e98cuenc yahoo com>]

--- Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Chris Altmann wrote:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:15:29 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Chris Altmann <altmann surewest net>
> > To: usability gnome org
> > Subject: Re: [Usability] notification - design
> proposal
> >
> > What MS has planned for Longhorn "Notifications"
> maybe of some
> > inspirational use:
> >
> >
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/Longhorn/understanding/ux/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnaero/html/wux_topic_alerts.asp
> 
> These seem like a follow on to the 'useful but
> non-essentail' notification
> features seen in Micrsoft Office XP Edition, which
> (I was told) do not
> take focus and interrupt your typing and go away if
> you ignore them (but
> isn't that what the status bar is for I thought!).

Except that nobody looks at the status bar :-)


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Joaquin Cuenca Abela
e98cuenc at yahoo dot com


	
		
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