Comments on: Evolving..

By: Yo'av Moshe

Yo'av Moshe — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 21:44:54 +0000

Hey, check out MonkeyPop -
http://mspace.berlios.de/gunther-user/view.php/page/MonkeyPop

By: Tuomas

Tuomas — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:27:25 +0000

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

By: Henri Bergius

Henri Bergius — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:37:56 +0000

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.

By: Tuomas

Tuomas — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:08:35 +0000

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

By: David Nielsen

David Nielsen — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:54:03 +0000

While I like the basic look, I think it’s not all it can be - I would use the color bar to indicate importance (so if I was away or say, totem was showing my a fullscreen movie I would only take “red” notifications, meaning people I marked important in Gossip, system security upgrades, low battery, etc) As you can hear I don’t want these messages just for rhythmbox but rather as a general interface which all programs could inform via D-BUS. The realisation hit me the other day when all this notification stuff started being debated, the notification tray serves the same purpose for a lot of shit - inform me when something happens, we could simplify our interface by doing the natural thing - having one interface to handle it all and using presence information to determine what we need to display and what we handle otherwise.
Say Totem is in fullscreen displaying a movie, I would want to deactivate the screensaver so it does bother me after a while, set myself away for unimportant people, pause Muine and so on, this would all be automatic using my profile.

By: Alessandro Giusti

Alessandro Giusti — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:20:19 +0000

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?

By: Tomasz Torcz

Tomasz Torcz — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:47:36 +0000

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.