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

[Jacob Beauregard <jrbeaure uvm edu>]

Thanks for the link Calum. One thing I'd like to mention:

"A balloon may be show when the icon is first displayed, if the icon's 
appearance is not the direct result of a user action. For example, the icon 
for an incoming email or instant message may be accompanied by a balloon. 
However, the appearance of a printing-in-progress icon would not be 
accompanied by a balloon, because its appearance was caused by the user 
choosing to print a document."

I know it says early thoughts, but what about the case of having a long print 
queue to get through? I haven't really ever seen a network printer signal 
anything back to my computer when it's finally handling the job, don't know 
if it's possible in all cases, but it would be nice. That could be 
generalized into any activity that the user has no control over when a job is 
handled or has been completed.

On Monday 30 April 2007 01:12:44 pm Calum Benson wrote:
> 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-notificat
>ion-area.html
>
> Cheeri,
> Calum.