Re: [Usability] Notification Pop-ups

[Brian Skahan <bskahan etria com>]

On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 18:05 +0200, David Christian Berg wrote:
> I'm not sure it should be HIG. There should be an extra notification
> plugin, shouldn't there? This will show the "toaster notification" of
> other apps, so therefore it'll decide on what they look like. I'm a
> friend of eye candy, but I think allowing html or svg isn't the way to
> go... the themes should be able to adress the pop_up (it just has to
> have its very own gtk widget name) but that is all you do for eye candy.
> You don't need to much HIG then and still have consistancy. This applet
> would also queue popups that that only one is visible at the time.(looks
> nicer)

The nice thing about having a notification spec is that it might be possible to define guidelines based on pretty strict usability principals, and implement a renderer based on them.  At the same time anyone could listen for the D-Bus signals with a more 'glitzy' rendering system, that doesn't adhere to strict accessibility guidelines.

-Brian

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