Ideas/Mockups for Mobile System Tray (GSoC)

[Chani]

> 
> I think it already is (public). There is a checkbox that says "make public"
> that I made sure to check :) If anyone is unable to see the proposal though
> let me know and I'll copy it out somewhere.

oh, is that a new feature this year?
last year there was no way to let non-mentors see it.
I do know that I couldn't see diego's proposal until I logged in.

> 
> For SMS, I proposed that first (huge and persistent) notification because
> that's the way one my old phone does it, and I personally thought it was a
> really good idea if it was primarily a 'phone' device because it's usually
> in my pocket so I actually want it to make a big deal out of things that
> happen, so that even if I somehow didn't hear the alert or feel the
> vibration when I next take out the phone I immediately see ah! new SMS, and
> in one button-press can reply/etc.

"when I next take out the phone" - ah, but that implies you weren't *doing* 
anything with the phone at the time. if you were in the middle of writing an 
sms, your priorities might be different. :)

> 
> Was thinking a dismiss-all button could immediately free up the screen but
> the systray should probably start flashing or have a new flashing icon or
> something to say "hey, you previously put away some notifications, come see
> it when you're free kay?".

flashing is evil :)
but having an icon is fine. the n900's glowy-window-switcher effect is a nice 
subtle reminder that something wants attention.

> 
> Another thing that could probably be done is to group notifications (since
> we have application name and SMS's probably all come from the same app), so
> that if someone sends you 10 SMS's you'd see just one notification that
> says "You have received 10 text messages" and the button says "Go to your
> inbox" instead?

perhaps... err... does the notification spec allow us to do that sort of thing?


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