default location of OSD

Dan Meltzer hydrogen at notyetimplemented.com
Sun Jul 2 15:26:33 UTC 2006


On Sunday 02 July 2006 11:01 am, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The first thing I do when I start using Amarok on a new installation, is
> change the location of the OSD. By default, it is shown in the middle of
> the screen for 5 seconds. I personally think this is way too intrusive,
> because this blocks the sight of your desktop for 5 seconds now and then
> unexpectedly when you're using your computer.

It was top left for a while, I'm not really sure why it moved.  Maybe it 
should go back?
>
> I move the OSD alway to the top right corner, where it is a lot less
> intrusive (e.g. when I'm surfing the web or reading e-mail, I'll be
> much more looking at the center of the screen than at the corners), and
> reduce it to 3 seconds (which suffices for me to take a quick look at it,
> without being annoyed it takes so much time to disappear.).
>
> Maybe a poll would be interesting to know where people put their OSD? I
> have seen already several screenshots of others who put it in one of the
> corners, so if it appears that a majority would prefer this, the default
> could be changed?



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