Comment 18 for bug 346095
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| Javier García Díaz (jgd) wrote Re: notify-osd doesn't honor my preference | #18 |
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In my opinion, the notifications should appear in the corner of the screen that is closer to the notification area (or the indicator applet, I still have not made a decision). Since many of the notifications have an icon in those areas (say Apport, Empathy, Evolution...), it would be faster and less confusing to perform the action related to the notification (open the crash report, read the IM message, read the incoming e-mail...). However, maybe is easier to just let the user choose the location.
As for the people that would benefit from it being configurable:
- The people that commented in this bug, since they would get what they asked for.
- People that are not using the default positioning of applets. If the notification is closer to the notification area, they won't have to move their attention to a different corner of the window once the notification has drawn it to a corner.
- People that read from right to left. The notifications would not disturb then that much (it's a matter of visual compostion, ask a publicist or a newspaper/website editor).