A new notification theme

Paul Frields stickster at gmail.com
Sat Sep 26 12:33:31 UTC 2009


On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 08:27 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
>> Matthias Clasen said the following on 09/24/2009 05:48 PM Pacific Time:
>> > Tomorrows rawhide will have a new notification theme for Gnome.
>> >
>> > The aim of this new theme is to integrate well with the theming in the
>> > rest of the desktop (which wasn't really the case with nodoka bubbles
>> > and a clearlooks desktop).
>> >
>> > Let me know how the new bubbles work for you; this is the initial
>> > release, so there is probably some fine-tuning left to do.
>> >
>>
>>
>> I confess up front to not understanding the full ramifications or risks
>> of changing notifications at this point in the release cycle.  Why are
>> we making this change now (right before the final freeze) when Feature
>> freeze was almost two months ago.  Why can't this wait for Fedora 13?
>
> We are making it before the beta freeze. We are changing a theme, so
> this is relatively low risk. And we are changing it now because we want
> F12 to look polished.

It does seem like a pretty minor change and very low risk. But all
black? Really?  OK, it does get my attention faster, so I'll give you
that one.  However, the interactive bits (buttons in a bubble) are
inconsistent.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525864

Also, there doesn't seem to be any difference between low, normal, and
critical urgency notifications any longer.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525867

Paul




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