<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Gary Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:garycmartin@googlemail.com">garycmartin@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi Martin,<br>
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On 8 Dec 2010, at 05:11, Martin Abente wrote:<br>
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> The design looks great, and I like the fact that it attaches each notification to its real context when there is a visible one (i,e an activity, journal, battery device icon, etc).<br>
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> How would it work with notifications that are not related to an activity or with a visible context?<br>
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Notifications not related to an activity or existing visible context would pulse and add new icons in the same way that transfer to/from notifications are designed. Here's an example showing your schoolserver institutional broadcast message example:<br>
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<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Notifications#School_server_messages" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Notifications#School_server_messages</a></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for these mock-ups!</div><div><br></div><div>As an aside, but relevant to implementation design, the schoolserver icon colors should probably be determined by a characteristic of the schoolserver (for consistency among learners or on instances with different learner names), much like the access point colors are derived from the SSID.</div>
<div><br></div><div> --Fred</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I am rather worried at the amount of use cases being raised, constant outside distractions and notifications are a productivity and deep thought killer. Hopefully you're just trying to make sure a design can cover all your possible base cases ;-)</blockquote>
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--Gary<br>
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> Possible use cases (examples):<br>
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> * XS registration messages.<br>
> * Automatic updater messages.<br>
> * Sugar critical errors report.<br>
> * Institutional broadcast messages.<br>
> * Anything that simply requires displaying a message.<br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
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