[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Notifications

[Martin Abente]

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>wrote:

> IMHO, keep all the notifications in one single place, like here
>
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Notifications#Alternative_corner_history_design
>
> would make easier locate them, instead of needing look in every activity
> palette.
> If we implement the notifications in the activity palette, we need add a
> badge to the activity icon as in
>
>
I based my design in that one actually (and looks almost identical, except
for the position of the icon), in fact I had a working version of that but
IIRC the problem was that the icon would stay there and it was considered
too intrusive, as the icon would stay in that corner until the messages
were cleared.


>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Notifications#Notification_badges
>
> to help the user know about the issue.
>
> Gonzalo
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:52 PM, Martin Abente <
> martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Daniel Narvaez
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>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Gonzalo Odiard
>>>>
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> Gonzalo Odiard
>
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