Comment 25 for bug 346095

On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:54:07 -0000
Mat Tomaszewski <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thanks everyone for the comments.
>
> The balance between configurability and making software reliable,
> elegant and efficient is always very tricky. Michael, your problems
> with peripheral vision are a valid signal that there may be a design
> issue there. Thanks for bringing this up.

Thank _you_ for reopening this for consideration. I greatly appreciate
it, and I do hope that this bug can become fixed. It will be a great
help to be able to have the notifications display in a region of the
screen where I can easily see them. I currently miss many of them
because I sometimes only notice them after they've been up for most of
the length of the timeout. Making the timeout longer isn't that
helpful since it takes a serialized approach to displaying the
notifications, really making the only viable solution (at least for me)
being the ability to relocate them.

Given the design of the rest of the system, I don't see it as being too
much or too confusing to let people do just that. Thank you again.

> Notify OSD is a brand new package and we're constantly gathering
> information about various problems and requests. Any such issue raised
> that becomes a trend or is verified by user testing will be addressed,
> and - if necessary - the functionality will be changed. Please
> understand though that this won't happen overnight :)

Hardly. Everything takes time. The biggest frustrating thing was
simply being shot down without consideration for the issue. I know and
realize that there are many applications that have too many knobs; any
application system that has too much in the way of configurability will
become confusing; the answer doesn't lie in the other end of the
spectrum, though. Even if notify-osd's only config tweaking happens in
gconf and has to be accessed by gconf-editor, that is good enough.
After all, it could re-use the /apps/notification-daemon configuration,
or simply copy its popup_location key to /apps/notify-osd.

Thank you again.

 --- Mike