Martin Gräßlin wrote: >> 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.
I was thinking just like you. My initial patch was labeled "Lighter notifications", but Celeste and ScottK (of Kubuntu fame) suggested to put the Ayatana word here to start building a brand on it. > 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 It seems you missed the "Preview" buttons in the dialog. > (btw > the last time I tested Karmic the edges monitor didn't get disabled when > switching to KDE notifications). Good point. Will fix. > 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. I would not call this an "easy way to test" > 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. My knowledge of the Kubuntu community makes me quite confident this won't 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. That's all I want you to find. Experiment with it and extract anything which makes sense from it. > 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". As I said, the changes received varied feedback. I met Ubuntu users who really loved notify-osd, and others who don't. Aurélien _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
