Making notifications close-able

Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.ledkov at gmail.com
Fri Mar 26 07:36:43 UTC 2010


Hello

This is more appropriate for the ayatana desktop experience mailing list.

On 26 March 2010 06:44, Chandru <chandru.in at gmail.com> wrote:
> I understand that notifications are not manually close-able to avoid making
> the user take a conscious decision about notifications.  However, there are
> certain cases where user might want to immediately close the notification
> without waiting for it to time-out (certain chat messages, for example).
> To handle these cases, can't we allow manual closing of the notifications
> (say by clicking it) while still retaining the time-out based closing to
> ensure that the user can still ignore it without any difference?
> --
> Chandra Sekar.S
>

And that won't work =) cause one the design goals was to make them
"click-through" so that if your mouse is that corner and notification
appears you can still do what you wanted instead of getting confused
=)

With regards,

Dmitrijs.




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