[openbeos] Re: inconsistency?

"Mikael Jansson" <tic_khr@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Although I am not really a friend of the bubble windows in Windows, 
> > I 
> > think they have at least one advantage over your 2nd suggestion: it 
> > doesn't change the window position. It also makes sure that the 
> > user 
> > can grasp the whole title and origin of that window.
> > It could go away after a while, and it could also have a button 
> > that 
> > moves W' to the foreground.
> > Combine that with the transparency effect of yours and a hot key 
> > that 
> > the user can press during that fade out time (and afterwards as 
> > long 
> > as the bubble is open) to bring that window to front.
> Yup, good idea.  What features should N have?

What do you mean? Bubbled edges or something? :)
I would also not make it transparent: the user should be able to easily 
read what it contains.

> > If you don't need to click the bubbles away, I think they are a 
> > good 
> > way of informative but unobtrusive way of getting information to 
> > the 
> > user. If there was such a popup, I think it would be nice to have a 
> > tray icon for all past events the user didn't acknowledge.
> Again, a good idea. Should we have priorities? (possibly making this 
> into a system-wide list, with "B_SYSTEM_PRIORITY" or similar being 
> said 
> messages)

I don't know if priorities are needed - these messages should be not so 
important by definition (if they were really important, you should 
consider using a different mechanism).
But maybe it's a good idea to add a category to it.

> > >   Also, what happens when the focus window is maximized...?
> > The bubble could always be ontop, always at the same position. Of 
> > course, only if that very position is not the hot spot of current 
> > user input (ie. the view having focus is covered).
> We could place the note window anywhere, as the user should be able 
> to 
> click through it (perhaps not the /actual/ hot spot, but close 
> enough) 
> and act if it wasn't there.

I would even go further in a different direction and would add 
functionality to it, like a button to close it, or a button to bring 
that stupid window into focus :)

Bye,
   Axel.

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