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Evolving..

Chris Lee made a suggestion to avoid the jumping contents of the popup:

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I think it makes sense, although it might look a bit strange to have the title at bottom. But worth a thought anyway. Thanks Chris!

And yes, the expanded note shouldnt be that wide. Consider it a Gimping error :-)

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  1. Tomasz Torcz
    September 24th, 2004 - 11:47

    Some kind of inteligency wolud be useful. I have notification area in upper panel, so popup content should be reversed — title on top, optional content lower.

  2. Alessandro Giusti
    September 24th, 2004 - 12:20

    Nice idea not to jump the title. Or, a smooth transition should be made, probably with an animation.

    Also, if originally on a top panel, should not need to put album info over title.
    Now, what about putting album info on the left or on the right of the title?

  3. Tuomas
    September 24th, 2004 - 14:08

    Yeah, I am fully intending to color code the bar on the left to mark certain types of notifications. Important ones have red etc.. The left bar also has a function to work as a hide timer for the notification, like a hourglass. Check the other blog entries of mine.

    Also there is this spec being written at galago.sf.net

  4. Henri Bergius
    September 27th, 2004 - 11:37

    On Mac OS X the Growl library (http://growl.info) provides quite nice notification pop-ups.

    They appear below each other in user-configured corner (top right by default) and fade after a short period.

    I think similar approach would probably work better than popping notifications up from the panel like they do in WinXP.

  5. Tuomas
    September 27th, 2004 - 17:27

    Thanks for the link Henri! (and hi, long time no see since Dublin :) )

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