Re: [Usability] notification - design proposal

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

Alan Horkan wrote:

> 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!).

The difference is that these ones are supposed to inform you of system 
events or messages, like a change in network connection status, or that 
Yet Another Windows Security Patch Is Available for Download.  For these 
sorts of messages, there isn't really a relevant application status bar 
in which to post the message, and an alert box would be annoying.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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