Comment 18 for bug 436975

Hi Mirco,

I understand your argumentation and the idea behind it. Nevertheless I think the concept is bad. No average user will ever be able to tell the difference between a synchronous and an asynchronous notification. They just see, that some messages pop up at different position and that's just ugly and unintuitive in my opinion. As I said before, people don't expect the messages to pop up somewhere on the screen but just right at the top-right corner and first time I saw it, it appeared to me as a bug. I am very sure, once Karmic is released people will complain and write bug reports. Please try to see things from the perspective of the user and not of that of a developer. Seriously, if you have to explain a user interface to the user, it's not intuitive anymore!!

The down-shifted notifications are also very annoying, they overlap with tabs in a full-screen Firefox, so I have to hover the mouse over the notification to see what's below. The original behavior was way less intrusive and I hope we can get back to that behavior or at least, I can. I will try your gconftool-tweaks.

Adrian