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On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 19:36, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <email address hidden> wrote:
> I meant to have the app loaded but without any notification
> icons/windows anywhere.
But I also want to be able to activate it by clicking - not only by hotkey.
> Have you looked at the png mockup I did? It is attached to the
> bugreport.... don't know if it was mailed or not though.
No, it wasn't - now looked at it. I like the 3 and 4 where in 3 the icon should have a different color than in 4.
The messages should appear already on hovering however, not only when I click the menu.
> This starts to sound like RSS reader or GWibber =) shall we make our
> desktop just tweet those and read it via messeging menu?
Yes - The output from Gwibber could be simply taken and shown in the messaging menu.
> Actually why can't it be part of the messaging menu? Create one more
> entry "System" and add those under there. Just a thought....
I like the draft from Mark quite good - the one you linked.
> "system
> menu" or if we can it put those inside the power button menu and add a
> menu item there "View system messages..." to see history of those.
That would be cool.
> the "system menu" is the one that doesn't exist yet =) and I'm a bit
> of a minimalist, when there is nothing to report we shouldn't be
> adding anything to the interface.
I thought you meant the menu with the power off icon to be the system menu.
> I don't think me-menu is good for this. First of all you cannot have
> secondary click on any of the indicators (established design, right
> click currently brings up gnome panel applet menu) And me-menu has
> relationship to what's about "me" and not about any other disasters
> that can happen.
I also created a mockup using tabs in the menu - could that be an option? That would be a catogorized notifications menu then (see mockup-tabs.png)
> You could have shortcuts to your applications & applet/shortcut to
> "show my desktop" with netbook launcher running on the desktop.
I don't put anything on the desktop - the desktop is burried away usually.
> So shortcut to show desktop & click huge icon for app can be quicker
> then precisely hitting small icon on the panel.
And then restoring the windows again. - For me clicking on the small icon is faster.
> You need to measure time for the whole action & how hard is it to
> remember it (muscle memory). E.g. emacs has shortcuts which are
> two-three and sometimes four keys combos and it is very efficient and
> can do a lot. You are probably a vim user it has it's advantages as
> well but I personally type most of the time and not switching modes.
For things I use very often I can also remember longer shortcuts but a lot of things you use just once a week or so. Hotkeys then must be easier to remember.