Hi all, I don't really want to have a moan, I was just wondering "why?" and to get everyone's views. I remember way back when Linux on the desktop was beginning to progress faster and people were discussing how to notify the user of certain system events. Reading various Internet blog posts, articles, websites, etc. at the time people always bitched about how they found Windows' desktop pop-ups/notifications in the system tray annoying while they were working. How come then, has Gnome and KDE both adopted similar notification methods which in my opinion are much bigger and a lot more annoying than any Windows notifications have ever been? The Gnome pop-ups are clean and concise, which I like, but they are way to big and take up too much space, thus blocking what I am doing. In KDE (Fedora 10 + 11), the pop-ups for things such as KpackageKit stack all the way vertically up my screen and are un-tidy, un-polished and un-clear (I can post a screen shot if requested) Don't get me wrong, I love Fedora, used it since FC1, but I cannot understand why the developers have done similar things like this to "other OS's" and IMO made them worse. If I can help with usability in any way, I would be glad to so. I have seen many mockup's before that are much better than the current systems. IIRC Jakub Steiner a.k.a Jimmac has done some very good designs[1]. Sorry for the noise - Just want to make a better desktop(tm) :-) [1] http://jimmac.musichall.cz/guimockups.php?mockup=notifications -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
