this looks pretty cool, notification bubbles..

[Darryl Clarke]

On 12/14/05, Brian Puccio <brian at brianpuccio.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 09:24 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> > http://www.martianrock.com/?p=175
> >
> > This would look bloody brilliant in dapper :-D
>
> It looks cool, but I read an article (or blog entry or something) about
> the usability of same and it raised a few valid points. What if the
> notification pops up while I'm AFK for a glass of water and I miss it?
> The solution to that is to make it require me to click on it to make it
> go away. However, if I'm in the middle of something, I may not want to
> have to push interruptions out of my way. There were a few other issues
> raised in the writing that I don't remember off hand, but it seems to be
> a sticky issue. While I'm sure there is a decent way to implement these,
> it would need to be done right.

Those certainly look pretty...

The current update notification throws a popup bubble like that (not
as pretty).  It's not overly annoying, but it would be if I weren't
using a monster screen with a monster resolution.

It also doesn't usually popup unless I manually update my sources
list, or it updates itself sometime during the night.

If I recall, it doesn't go away until you click it either, but I'll
have to pay more attention to it next time I see it.

I think for an idle session it'd be fine to popup and wait for
interaction before vanishing, but for an active user there's nothing
more annoying than a gigantic bubble telling me something I don't care
to read.

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