Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 23rd Dec 2008 20:18 UTC
As part of its initiative to improve the usability of the Linux desktop, Canonical has made a proposal for a desktop notification system for both GNOME and KDE. Mark Shuttleworth announced the proposal on his blog earlier this week. The mockup video shows notification more or less like the 3d party Growl system for Mac OS X. Since we are talking Linux here, the meat is in the implementation details and cross-desktop compatibility.
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I rather like the idea of making them so completely ephemeral and nonessential. Because that means I can just turn them off. When those little balloons pop up, I get the distinctly unpleasant (and likely irrational) feeling that I am running Windows. They are an annoyance I can well do without. As Mark says, anything that I really need to know about should have an unobtrusive panel icon that I can take action (click) at my convenience to find out more about. Notifications are messages from the devil. ;-)
Edited 2008-12-23 20:58 UTC