Am Mittwoch 23 September 2009 16:48:00 schrieb Aurélien Gâteau: > Hi, > > I would like to present to you some work I have been doing for Canonical > regarding notifications in Plasma. That just saved you from a rant about it on planetkde from my side ;-) I wanted to blog about some things I don't like. Most important I don't like that Canonical is reinventing the wheel. KDE has a great notification system which could be improved but developing a second system is IMHO completely wrong and doesn't look like a good Upstream/Downstream relationship. > An important point: While the patch is integrated in Kubuntu, the > default behavior is to use KDE notifications. The user can switch to > Ayatana notifications through an option of the system tray configuration > dialog (there are even preview buttons to help the user decide). > > http://people.canonical.com/~agateau/plasma-ayatana-notifications/configura > tion.png Sorry have you ever considered how that looks to the user? Which user does know about Ayatana? That is a technical term which should not be presented in a UI. Why should a user switch to something else than the KDE notifications? The dialog is completely missing any information on what the notifications provide, what's the difference between the two and in the end it will come down to the one provides different possible positions while the other doesn't (btw the last time I tested Karmic the edges monitor didn't get disabled when switching to KDE notifications). If you wanted to give an easy way to test this system while not destroying user experience you should have made this a hidden config file option.
Some personal notes: adding strings to the user interface is realy bad if the distribution is Kubuntu. From my experience of four years using Kubuntu there has never been any release where the custom additions made by Kubuntu were translated and given the history and the fact that there is no community left which will translate the strings I doubt they will be translated. There is IMHO nothing worse to the user experience than broken translations. That's of course in no way your fault, I just wanted to make you aware of the problem ;-) And I am realy afraid that there will be the time when Kubuntu switches from KDE notifications to those Ayatana notifications. I realy hope that will never happen. There might be good things about it and it would be great to bring them into the normal KDE notifications but all together I don't want the system. I have spoken to many Ubuntu users and nobody has said a good word about notifiy-osd, the most common saying was "broken by design". Just so when Kubuntu switches to Ayatana, I will switch to a different distribution. I don't want a distribution which doesn't use the upstream implementation in a very centric part of the desktop environment.
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