<div class="gmail_quote">2010/1/25 Aaron J. Seigo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aseigo@kde.org">aseigo@kde.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
so if a power management notification happens, kopete notifications are<br>
silently queued up _behind_ that notification until it the critical<br>
notification is dealt with.<br></blockquote></div><br>Guys,<br><br>Having notifications queued (by showing just 1 at a time) seems like a good idea to clean up the desktop but it could bring more trouble than just that inconvenience.<br>
<br>What if kopete says someone is talking to you and you were about to hit the action for chatting with that person and suddenly battery (or anything urgent else) comes along and you then actually hit the wrong deal for it?<br>
<br>And, btw, limiting it to 3 would avoid it a bit more but wouldn't prevent it from happening.<br><br>I think this is just a make up for the actual problem: lots of useless notifications by default. But, if the user decided that kopete should tell him/her when people change status, it means it's important to him/her, as, for example, it might be the way to contact a business client. So, the desktop shouldn't be in his/her way and, worse, prevent him to make something important.<br>
<br>The only way I see to make it better without affecting user experience is to make notifications use less space. Maybe icons could be smaller (so kopete's notification about someone saying "Hello" would take much room), maybe breaking less lines, maybe getting a little bit wider, ... I'm not quite sure yet (again, I'm trying to provide myself with kde trunk here at work, where I only have an old gnome in ubuntu 8.04 =O -- but I'm getting there and could be more exact) but, still, redesign notifications would be better than avoid user from knowing what's going on.<br>
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