Re: New modules in 2.14

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:58 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:

> Sounds right to me. The only thing I fear is that a lot of apps will use
> notification bubbles without good reasons. I'd like to see some HIG
> recommandations for this.
> Also, it's not clear whether apps should use notification bubbles or the
> notification area. And sometimes they use both...
> 

Yeah, I've already put in some placeholders for this sort of stuff, but
haven't had time to flesh them out yet:

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig_new/desktop-notification-area.html#desktop-notification-balloon

Suggestions for sane guidelines always welcome...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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