Re: [Usability] Notifying about expected things

["raw sausage" <rawsausage gmail com>]

>Unfortunately libnotify didn't really turn up after the last stable version of the HIG was released, so no, that version has nothing about it.
>The unstable draft version has a placeholder for libnotify guidelines[1], but they need fleshing out properly, once we've decided how best
> to move forward with the next release of the HIG generally.

I'll be waiting eagerly for the progress on that.

> Is bugzilla.novell.com or bugzilla.gnome.org the place for network
> manager bugs? See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455250
> which has a patch to simply disable the network manager notifications.

Sorry, my bad.

The patch is interesting. However as it seems also Banshee-1 has
problems (the only way to disable notification balloons is to disable
the minimizing to the system tray plugin entirely) I have been
considering deleting the whole libnotify library from the file system.
I can't quick think of any really useful popups that I would have seen
that would come from any applications that I use.

The only exception being perhaps my own hack to monitor hdd SMART
status, and make a popup when the disk reports that there will be
imminent disk failure soon. (Yes, I made such feature and it's really
baffling that no distribution ships with such by default.) Now THAT
would be important enough to notify the user about.

> I think that the Apple way is more subtle: When it can't find a
> "trusted" network, it displays a notification, asking you if its okay
> to connect, with a little checkbox to add the network to the list of
> trusted networks, so that next time it sees the network, it will just
> connect.

That sounds clearly better already. Requiring user attention only to
solve exception situation.