Comments on: New notification work lands in Jaunty

By: linux

linux — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:15:39 +0000

linux…

The first distro that I downloaded and, per force, bought was Linspire. (Yes, folks, not all Linux is free. This one cost me 50.) It installed painlessly on my Dell laptop at home, and is very slick. If you don’ t mind paying a little for stuff and wan…

By: tardigrade

tardigrade — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:16:56 +0000

A few months on and I have got used to the notifications system, because I’m now familiar with it. I am still struggling to see it as an improvement though. My principle objections are that it is too slow. Almost any kind of notification tails behind the rest of the system telling me what’s going on, for example email, downloads, wi-fi network and even screen brightness. All of these were better with there previous notifications.

Positioning in Karmic has not improved it’s got worse.

The fact that the notifications fade on mouseover does not stop you from wanting to dismiss the notification and if you catch it too soon it actually focuses the notification rather than dimming it. Basically it’s in the way.

It’s not actionable. I thought that I could accept this, but after a number of months I’ve realised that I can’t and it’s actually damned annoying and is definately counter productive.

The bottom line is that, I like the notification concept. I didn’t accept it initially, but I’ve come to appreciate it. However this particular implementation of it, does not work and I am left wishing I could un-install it.

I’m sorry to be so negative. But I believe that the notification system needs more work, and I’m frustrated enough with it to feel that it warrants such negative feedback. It’s broken and needs improvement because it doesn’t work as well as previous notifications did, particularly in relation to speed and legibility. As an enhancement it is simply not an enhancement at all. But it could be if developed correctly.

It’s just very frustrating to see something that could work be a bane. Difficult to put my finger on what’s missing or what could lift it up, but then if I could I guess I would be a Guru and not a User.

Looking forward to 10.4 anyway.

By: Michael Grossman

Michael Grossman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:21:48 +0000

Where will linux be in 15 years? in 100? Epicycles, metacycles, unicycles (just kidding!) sound a bit like hype to me and my Bologna detector starts to deflect full scale. Perhaps mandatory periodic releases may just result in mandatory, periodic reinvention of the wheel: for example, sleep on intel macbook (2,1) worked in Hardy, broke in Jaunty, seems again to work in Karmic. (Proprietary Video/Audio has never been great in ANY Linux, although I realize this is more the artificial result of crippling laws rather than the period of software cycles. )

This may be too far out of the box, but perhaps we should be trying to lengthen the period between human interventions in software–with the ultimate goal of the period approaching infinity: the software maintains itself because it wants to exist and make more of itself. Why can’t a virus or a worm(s) be created to help people and do something useful? Could there ever be an operating system that consists entirely of virally reproducing, cooperative, symbiotic (with humans and each other, providing they do not occupy the same niche) software life?
Such software life could be managed and weeded like a garden. Perhaps we are already on the brink of creating a new kind of life. Or perhaps we’ve already done it and not noticed, the software making humans run around and do silly repetitive things to serve its own semi-sentient reproductive goals?

There goes my bologna-detector again: I think I blew its fuse.

By: mokume trauringe

mokume trauringe — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:47:41 +0000

I agree: the dark theme seems fine to me.

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Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:05:10 +0000

[...] baru Semua notifikasi tergabung menjadi satu di kanan atas, dari mulai volume, batere, sampai notifikasi pidgin. Menarik [...]

By: psycholog

psycholog — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:23:58 +0000

Finally, a decent way to present incoming telephone calls from sipwitch. Naturally I consider the most “important” uses for notifications first

By: Mihir Patel

Mihir Patel — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:59:03 +0000

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By: prowista

prowista — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:42:27 +0000

oh, where is my comment?

By: Consacepo

Consacepo — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:56:06 +0000

I believe that its very unprofessional to keep supporting these older browsers, we as web designers should have some obvious and useful tools for the job, but these browsers makes it harder for beginners to catch up, and even makes the most skilled of us resort to pure guesswork as of how to get something to work in a given browser.

By: namensschilder

namensschilder — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:53:38 +0000

hope that you know about the problems with translations used in Ubuntu

best wishes
namensschilder