[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] SL #4756

[Gonzalo Odiard]

> Maybe we could extend the notifications to urgent notifications.
> Urgent notifications would show the title and message in the popup, like
> [1].
>
> Sam
>
> [1]:
> http://www.microsoft.com/global/en-us/news/publishingimages/ImageGallery/Images/Products/Skype/Windows8StartScreenW_Page.png
>

Would be better don't do changes like this right now.
We are in feature freeze, and the concept of "urgent" open many questions
and possible solutions.

Gonzalo




> On May 3, 2014 3:28 AM, "Walter Bender" <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I implemented a solution to #4756:  Maximum Activities notification
>> doesn't display [1] [2]. My approach was to determine what window
>> (view, journal, activity) is open and put the alert in the appropriate
>> window.
>>
>> As per the discussion below, Gonzalo suggests that there may be other
>> approaches, hence this email to Design.
>>
>> ----
>>
>>
>> <gonzalo> walterbender, is strange show a alert in a activity. what
>> you think about moving to the home to show the alert in the case of
>> trying to open one activity fro the clipboard?
>> <gonzalo> i mean, for the user, the activity canvas is only for
>> activity content, not for system messages
>> <gonzalo> when i say moving, i want to say switch to the home view
>> * tch has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds)
>> <walterbender> gonzalo, I was on the fence about that
>> <walterbender> gonzalo, it is an interesting trade-off
>> <walterbender> on the one hand, I think we don't want to have the
>> alert move the user away from where they were
>> <walterbender> but I agree it is a system alert
>> <gonzalo> walterbender, i understand is a corner case, but in fact we
>> are adding a api to show any message in the activity api
>> <gonzalo> walterbender, in fact is a design decision
>> <walterbender> gonzalo, I don't see the harm in adding the
>> functionality as long as we use it with discretion
>> <walterbender> I can see how the system might want to let the user
>> know something while they are in an activity, e.g., disk full
>> <walterbender> or battery dead... shutting down...
>> <walterbender> or the think you copied to the clipboard cannot be
>> opened right now
>> <walterbender> happy to have the design discussion
>> <gonzalo> collide a little with the notifications
>> <walterbender> maybe this should be a notification
>> <gonzalo> yes, could be implemented with a notification
>> <walterbender> I'll send an email to design
>>
>> Suggestions/Comment?
>>
>> regards.
>>
>> -walter
>>
>> --
>> Walter Bender
>> Sugar Labs
>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/139
>> [2] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/359
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