2-3 parallel solution to choose by the user? Re: Any, alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

[Jon Phillips]

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 16:55 -0600, Jonathon Suggs wrote:
> Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: 
> > Do you really want e.g. the "incoming phone" confirmation dialog behave like that? 
> > [more notification strategies]
> > ...
> > I understand your point, I just think that this kind of thinking is not what the majority of smartphone users wants.... or is it? Guys?
> 
> I think Mickey is right about the "majority."  When I get a phone call,
> 97.842% of the time it is the most important thing that is happening and
> should be treated as such (almost fullscreen pop-up with VERY large,
> easy to press with a finger buttons [ANSWER] [IGNORE] (or whatever they
> would say))
> 
> Now, do I want all pop-ups like that? Probably not.  I really like the
> idea of the 'footer' being able to "stack" several notifications that I
> can review at my convenience.
> 
> Moving right along, I think a good way to proceed is to have a system
> API for creating notifications.  You can give them different levels,
> priorities or whatever you want to call them.  But so long as there is a
> generic way to create them (and all applications use that API) then
> exactly how they are displayed can be customized by the user.  The
> default setting can be the 2/3 screen pop-up.  But it could be overridden...
> 
> -Jonathon

There are already systems for doing these notifications:

http://www.galago-project.org

I know there are more solutions than this as well, but ideally we can
use what already exists on the desktop and help add to respective
projects' functionality for net gain.

Jon

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