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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2008-03-17
What is the point of a notification if you can't take an action based upon it. Do they really expect people to go hunt the application that just created the notification?
Not being able to dismiss it is silly too. If it stays up too long it is a pain and might get in the way. If it is too short, it is just visual noise that has no purpose whatsoever as you can't read the text.
Obviously they disagree, but quite frankly those two aspects are really silly. Everything else is fine...