That they may annoy experienced users who see little wrong with As for the changes in the new guidelines, Cowan suggested That over-use of the system could defeat the entire purpose of providing In addition, too many dialogsĬould frustrate users, to the point that some disable them altogether, so Piece of malware has started an application. The sudden appearance of windows andĪlerts, Cowan suggested, is confusing, and could make users worry that a Yet another post, this time by Bruce Cowan, summarized We are now going through the long and painful process of Work for some very specific cases (examples being network connection, Matthew Paul ThomasĮ have good reason to believe that persistent indicators only However, for the most part, discussion remained civil. Of conduct by which developers agree to abide. Rare occurrence on Ubuntu lists compared to those of some projects, due to To call one developer's comments " not constructive" - a Time we will have to rely on common sense".Īt one point, the language became so heated that Mark Shuttleworth intervened Just getting started, and were expensive enough that " much of the To such comments, Mat Tomaszewski replied several times, with patience andĮnthusiasm for the tasks at hand, while Matthew Paul Thomas, anotherĬanonical employee, explained in a similar tone that usability efforts were That " It's as if the people at Canonical had taken a politics courseĪnd decided to deliberately alienate those people who are not inside of Involved in the Canonical is that theyĪre so convinced of the correctness of their design that anyĭisagreement with it must stem from a lack of understanding from The feeling I get from many email and IRC discussions with people Guidelines, that " 'trust us, we have our reasons' is not going toĪs discussion continued, it soon became apparent that at least some Ubuntuĭesigners outside Canonical distrust those employed by the company. Mat Tomaszewski of the Canonical design team, the group responsible for the Some of the discussion called for citations to support a usability The advantages of the proposed alert boxes is that, unlike notificationīubbles, they remain on the desktop, and provide dialogs that are easier toĭiscussion of these new guidelines quickly followed Shuttleworth's blogĮntry, wandering across several threads in ubuntu-devel in February and Why accidental selection is perceived as a problem, Will help prevent the accidental selection of a button when the cursor Guidelines refer to this arrangement as "morphing," and suggest that it The window or alert box will display the basic message, followed by, when the userĬlicks it, a dialog, possibly with a different color background. In cases such as a low battery reading, when a quick response is needed, In an alert box that opens beside the system tray without taking the focus Need an immediate response - for instance, when a printer isĭetected, but the necessary driver is missing - it will be displayed More radically, when a notification needs user input, but doesn't In a dialog above the web page, using the browser's built-in notification When a web browser has blocked up a popup, the notification could display Release, be replaced with a notification in an existing window for instance, Whenever possible, notification bubbles will, in the next Ubuntu For these reasons, the guidelines call for a reduction in their use,Īlthough acknowledging the possibility that they might still be useful in Their shape) are easily missed because they disappear after a few seconds,Īnd they often point to icons in the system tray, which users may find hard toĬlick. The problem is that the now-standard notification bubbles (so-called for Both the blog and the guidelines include screen shots to Were announced in Mark Shuttleworth's blog entry for FebruaryĢ1. Which typically appear by the notification tray in GNOME. The discussion centers around the new guidelines for notification messages, Whether notifications should be used at all. List over the past two weeks, which quickly turned into a discussion of A case in point is theĭiscussion of Ubuntu's new notification guidelines on the ubuntu-devel However, the discussions can become convoluted and acrimonious,Īs developers argue the logic of design principles. The main places to go for detailed discussions about GNU/Linux This article was contributed by Bruce ByfieldĮver since last July, when Mark Shuttleworth called on Ubuntu to surpass Mac OS X in desktopĭesign within two years, Ubuntu mailing lists and blogs have become one of
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