Comment 150 for bug 332945

Il giorno mer, 08/04/2009 alle 14.19 +0000, Brian Curtis ha scritto:
>
> What makes these things "difficult", is that most of the time people
> aren't staring at their taskbar tray, and any icon that pops up goes
> unnoticed (most of the time). Making this how MPT has it , is
> something
> to try out, and get used to.

If the pop-up is supposed to be a pop-under, as it seems, then it will
go unnoticed though, because if people aren't staring at their taskbar
tray, neither they are staring at their window list.

> Are you being intruded when your
> e-mail program notifies you in a persistent window that new mail is
> ready (and maybe even bring up the program window unfocused)?

In fact, thunderbird opens an old-school popup when there is no network
connection, typically removing the focus from something else I was
typing. It's extremely annoying.

Evolution on the other hand, which is a gnome program, does not do that.
The non-intrusiveness is why I like gnome. Period.

> Are you
> being intruded when your IM client pops up a window when someone new
> IM's you?

In fact, it's a pop-under, and it's in the way anyways, especially when
somebody else is with me at the pc. However, a BIG difference between
pidgin and update-notifier is that if I close the pidgin window without
even reading it, I can reopen it later and read messages (I think this
is in the default log configuration but am unsure).