Ubuntu
notify-osd package

  1. Bug #438536
  2. Comment #107

Comment 107 for bug 438536

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Scott Armitage (scott-armitage) wrote : Re: [Bug 438536] Re: Notifications should show up closer to top right

>
> What kind of usability study could possibly have thought this is a good
> idea?
>
> Look it notifies you of its message right? - Good!
> But...
> Then you go to dismiss it and it does not close! How frustrating.
> But its actually worse because it does not even let you click the damn
> thing!
> No instead you click whatever is behind it! Why would I _ever_ want this
> behavior?
>

Because you aren't supposed to dismiss it. The notifications are supposed to
be sufficiently out of the way that they do not interrupt your workflow. You
just leave them there. If you /need/ to access something behind them, e.g. a
toolbar button or something, then they allow you to see and interact with
the rest of your UI that is underneath them, again without interrupting you.

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Scott Armitage, B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. candidate
Space Flight Laboratory
University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
4925 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3H 5T6