Comments on: Gnome-Shell’s Message Tray latest designs

By: URL

URL — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:49:54 +0000

… [Trackback]…

[...] Find More Informations here: worldofgnome.org/gnome-shells-message-tray-latest-designs/ [...]…

By: alex285

alex285 — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 22:23:00 +0000

Yes its libnotify and notification daemon. But I don’t know how it works.

By: Ancurio

Ancurio — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 22:15:00 +0000

Are they using libnotify for all this?
If yes, how do the multiple actions in a notification fit with its API?
AFAIK it only allows one atm.

By: Gnome-Shell's Message Tray latest designs | woGue « E-WEB

Gnome-Shell's Message Tray latest designs | woGue « E-WEB — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 20:28:50 +0000

[...] rest is here: Gnome-Shell's Message Tray latest designs | woGue Written by sdcfdquhx2 in: Earth | Tags: 360-and, alex-diavatis, developing-goes, [...]

By: Timo

Timo — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 10:20:00 +0000

Hm, good thing that they are rethinking the concept of notifications that make getting notified about new messages a pain in the a (aka “not being notified unless looking right at it anyways).
Bad thing that there are plans to “move the content instead of covering it” – that would suck slightly more than putting notifications on an autohide-panel.
I think the best solution would be to have a type of notification that relates to “conversations” and those need to get a whole different kind of attention than “removable media” or “currently playing music”.

And if they are integrating evolution even more, there should DEFINATELY be an effort to redo that dinosaur: A) split into seperate applications that each do their one thing well B) UI that is not derived from outlook2000 C) Basic Features: Conversation View, Grouped Inbox, D) Startuptime and Performance.

By: alex285

alex285 — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 21:53:00 +0000

Obviously you are right. On the other hand new features are added in every release that contributors most likely want to use them, so they will re-write their extensions anyway. A clear API will help you to update your extension, if you know what functions are deprecated and what are the new equivalents.
After all, extensions are about 500 lines of JS coding, not big deal to change it. A stable API in here I think is a dream :)

By: jon_downfromthetrees

jon_downfromthetrees — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 21:42:00 +0000

A clear API that they stay with. API’s that are tossed out with each new release are as bad as none at all.

By: alex285

alex285 — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 21:39:00 +0000

This is partial working. You can set if the application has a visible tray-icon or not. For the rest I guess someone will write an extension. I hope G developers to make a clear API to help people to develop extensions.

By: jon_downfromthetrees

jon_downfromthetrees — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 21:33:00 +0000

Growl is a third-party notification tool that’s been very popular in the OS X world for a number of years. It includes some features that Gnome might want to look at. For example, users can select which apps/services will be allowed to generate notices. So, if you don’t want to know when mail arrives, you can turn that notice off. The location of the notice display is also user configurable. Users can also select from several different designs for the actual notification balloon.

As they look in the examples here, I, at least, would want to reduce the size of those notices. I’d also like to have the ability to set a limit on a notice’s persistence, i.e., how long they remain on screen.

By: Traista Eugen

Traista Eugen — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:28:00 +0000

This looks great! Can’t wait for Gnome 3.6

By: Gnome-Shell's Message Tray latest designs | woGue

Gnome-Shell's Message Tray latest designs | woGue — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:13:39 +0000

[...] Visit link: Gnome-Shell's Message Tray latest designs | woGue [...]