Comment 16 for bug 346095
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| ktp420 (ktp420) wrote RE: [Bug 346095] Re: notify-osd doesn't honor my preference | #16 |
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> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:00:53 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 346095] Re: notify-osd doesn't honor my preference
>
> Sure. Every extra option makes the interface more complex, which reduces
> learnability and memorability for the system as a whole. (In
> pathological cases it can reduce efficiency too, if popular options are
> buried alongside obscure options in a deep hierarchy. Evolution's and
> OpenOffice.org's preferences are unfortunate examples of this.) Every
> extra option also makes the code more complex, which makes it more
> likely to have bugs, reducing satisfaction.
So in this case, it is more important to have learnability and memorability. And efficiency and satisfaction is not that important. I mean the point of the notification is to inform the user about something, which could be information or errors. Now if the user finds it hard to use the feature, then doesn't this make it not safe since user can miss something important. I know you will never find perfect setup which will make everyone happy. That is why we have options. Let people decide and customize so the user is satisfied and the efficiency increases. Customize does not mean the user has to change code and rebuild and do this after every update. If you feel that this is something that most average user will not need, then why not provide option that is not easily seen in the UI but can be configured in case the users who do need to customize it can.
As for learnability, at least in this case, average user is most likely going to be coming for the Windows world. In that world, all the notification are on bottom right. So doesn't going to top right make it harder on the average beginner user of this system.
Besides I don't really see any point in taking this any further becaue it seems like the person(s) making the decission as already decissed what is the best for the user. And I am sure there were some user studies done on this.
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