Unity For Fedora (As in OpenSUSE or Arch)

[Nathanael Noblet]

On 02/01/2012 05:00 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On 2012-02-01 11:39, Florian Müllner wrote:
>
>> Because the "integrated experience" means that there is a fixed set of
>> system items with a defined order. Extensions can be used to "hack" the
>> intended experience (which includes adding "non-official" icons in the
>> top bar), but it's nothing we want normal applications to do.
>> Applications are encouraged to interact with the message tray (== the
>> autohiding bottom panel) via freedesktop notifications (yay,
>> cross-desktop! ;-)
>
> Yay cross-desktop maybe, but still a freaking disaster from a UI point
> of view, and the only thing I really dislike about GNOME 3 (when I was
> forced to drop to Xfce for a couple of days last week, the old-school
> notifications were the only things I preferred). That sometimes-hidden,
> erratically-triggered notification area *never* seems to do what I
> actually want it to do. It shows up when I don't want it, it doesn't
> show up when there's something on it I probably actually needed to see,
> the icons on it fly around like space invaders and take two or hree
> clicks to get rid of, transmission 'torrent completed' notifications
> stack to the moon and back...it's just not nice.
>
> I realize this isn't a very constructive mail, and the point has been
> raised before, but I'm hoping at some point the sheer weight of
> complaints will cause someone more creative than myself to actually come
> up with a notification system for GNOME 3 which satisfies the GNOME
> design team and *also* does not suck.

Me too. I can't stand that bottom corner area. I can't stand how they 
fly around left and right like they are dodging my mouse. Do I right 
click left click... some stick around forever... Seriously annoying.