Re: [Usability] Integration and Standardisation of Notification area and behaviour

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 10:50 +0200, Thilo Pfennig wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to know if there were already some thoughts on redesining
> the communication that applications do with the users?

There are some very preliminary guidelines about using the notification
area in the draft HIG.  They need a lot more work, but they do cover
some of the issues you mention.  (AFAIK there has been no discussion
about them with the KDE guys so far, though.)

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig_new/desktop-notification-area.html

Cheeri,
Calum.

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