[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Alerting users in case of write errors

[Michael Stone]

Gary wrote:
> On 13 Jun 2010, at 12:57, Anish Mangal <anishmangal2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> An alert like a chat or Activity sharing invitation would be nice, but one
>>> with a more visible signal is needed.
>> 
>>> We really really really ... need a general notification system. :D
>> 
>>> Please no popup error dialogue windows if you can avoid it ;) The alert
>>> strip that displays under the toolbar is a much more friendly notification
>>> for the Sugar UI design.
>> 
>> Thanks for the insightful responses. I have used a slightly modded
>> version of NotifyAlert (aptly called NotifyRedAlert). A sample
>> screen-capture can be found here...
>> 
>> http://people.sugarlabs.org/~anish/sl1842-journal.gif
>> Note: The link above is a big animated gif (~1.8M) and some browsers
>> may struggle to display it.
>
> Yea, my iPad chocked half way through :)
>
>> If this seems fine, I'll mail the patch for reviewing.
> 
> Looks nice. The colour fade (red to black over the time-out countdown) is
> something new and not in the Sugar HIG, but I don't have an objection — makes
> fair warning UI sense and could be something we adopt elsewhere when needed
> (if there aren't too many objections).

Anish, Gary,

I like the color fade too but the red hue is, for me, a bit overpowering.

Have you considered any alternatives like, for example, only applying the red
to the border of the alert or using the user's colors instead of red?

Kind regards,

Michael