[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Notifications

[Martin Abente]

Just to clarify a bit more, what I previously show could apply for system
events that do not belong to activities or journal.

I think Sam proposal is great and we should definitely support it for
activities and any other UI components that already has a iconic
representation in the frame.

But, for miscellaneous things we could consider having a special icon
somewhere in the frame (permanent or not), to avoid putting it in the wrong
place just because we don't have a "proper" place.




On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Martin Abente <
martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com> wrote:

> A video from a few yeara ago:
> http://www.sugarlabs.org/~tch/videos/messages.mpeg
>
> The design itself is not a distraction. The notifications are hidden in
> the frame. Even when the frame activates the messages queue is still hidden
> in the palette. Only when the user activates the palette the messages queue
> is shown.
>
> The messages are not lost since they are kept in the palette queue until
> explicitly removed by the user or when replaced by other when the queue is
> full.
>
> I think that, design wise, complies with both criteria Gonzalo mentions.
> Other details like, should this icon be in that frame section or another,
> or even if the icon should pulse or only show user's color are design
> details can be improved I think.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>wrote:
>
>> One problem we have right now with the notifications in Sugar,
>> is than is very easy lose a notification.
>> A common case is when you send a file to a friend.
>> Your friend receive a notification, and need accept it,
>> but the corner icon flash by a short time.
>> Is something difficult to balance, to not distract the user,
>> then need be carefully designed.
>>
>> Gonzalo
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Don't forget to add [DESIGN] for this kind of stuff.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 29 January 2014 01:48, Sam Parkinson <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I was working on a little notification thing as per the designs. You
>>>> can download it and test it from here:
>>>> https://github.com/SAMdroid-apps/sugar/tree/NotificationWIP and
>>>> https://github.com/SAMdroid-apps/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/tree/NotificationsWIP.
>>>> You can check out a test activity here:
>>>> https://git.sugarlabs.org/~samdroid/hello-world/hello-notification-world.
>>>> (To use the test, press notify and wait 3 seconds).
>>>>
>>>> Here are some pretty pics:
>>>>
>>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>>> (the thing is in the top-left)
>>>>
>>>> [image: Inline image 2]
>>>>
>>>> You can click on the notifications to close them. They do nothing since
>>>> we don't (yet) have an intent system.
>>>>
>>>> API in sugar3.activity.Activity:
>>>>
>>>>     def notify(self, summary, body, intent):
>>>>         """
>>>>         Display a notification with the given summary and body.
>>>>         The notification will have the activity's icon as the icon.
>>>>         **intent currently does nothing, so whatch this space**
>>>>         """
>>>>
>>>> See the example for usage :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please tell me what you think :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sam
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Gonzalo Odiard
>>
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