Surprise, surprise
There is something slick and stylish coming your way within the next few hours. Hope you will like it. And where that’s coming from, there is even more! cairo for the win 
There is something slick and stylish coming your way within the next few hours. Hope you will like it. And where that’s coming from, there is even more! cairo for the win
February 17th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Cant wait
February 17th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Why are you blogging now, and not in a couple of hours?
February 17th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Heads up dude, your like is broken:
http://macslow.thepimp.net/www.cairographics.org
February 18th, 2009 at 12:04 am
@tretle: Hehe.
@Andreas: I wanted to do something different this time around. I know I would hate myself for doing this, if I wasn’t myself … gosh that sounds awkward
@Jeff: How embarrassing! Thanks … fixed now.
February 18th, 2009 at 12:26 am
MacSlow: If you had blogged it in a couple of hours, I\’ve would have gotten some good sleep tonight. But now I\’m just too curious!
February 18th, 2009 at 12:40 am
@Andreas: Oh, I’m deeply sorry for ruining your sleep! But just go to bed and check again tomorrow. I’ll do just the same. Right now there’s nothing I can do to speed things up. Good night.
February 18th, 2009 at 7:36 am
Arrrgh!! I love surprises, but but i hate waiting!
February 18th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Where I am it’s already tomorrow, so can I open my present now ?
February 18th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
@Julo: You should be able to by now. Package updates for Jaunty Jackalope (Ubuntu 9.04) should have the "present" available.
February 18th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Sorry, but can you explan what actually is the suprise? Not everyone use Jaunty right now
- but are interestend in changes there?
Can’t see anything surprising at http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/newpkg?mode=byage
February 18th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Any news for non-Ubuntu users?
February 18th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
But what is it? (yes, I’m still running the stable release)
February 18th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
The only thing I have spoted in the updates is the new indicator applet.
February 18th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
@loeppel: Strangely it does not show up there, although it’s coming in with jaunty package updates via synaptic or similar means.
@mie: It will hopefully be picked up by others too. That’s our hope. When that’s the case I can’t tell.
@Andreas: It’s the new notification-daemon. But it’s only in jaunty atm. Not likely to be "backported" because of the huge bunch of patch-work in client apps using libnotify.
@tretle: Look out for the new replacement for the notification-daemon.
February 18th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Oh. I was hoping it was the delayed-again gdm login experience suddenly making it in.
February 18th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
@Vadim: what is that login experience you mention? details?
February 18th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
@Vadim P.: That\’s what I was hoping for when I read the title of the post.
But the new notification also sounds tasty!
February 18th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
@Vadim: Don’t worry we’ll get to that too. Not in Jaunty, but it’ll come.
@Raphael: Sorry for spurring any false expectations
February 18th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Is this update part of ubuntu-desktop which is held back at the moment?
February 18th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
I’ve updated and have installed indicator-messages and indicator-applet but the bling is still to appear:/
Also, I too thought the surprise would be the new gdm-login =P
February 18th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
@Miguel: My initial blog-post was refering to the new notification-daemon. You’ll should have that by now. As a small test just try under your updated jaunty system the command: notify-send "Joe Doe" "Yo dude, what’s up?" -i totem
February 18th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Macslow - forced the installation of ubuntu-desktop through synaptic and now the notifications all work… Its very slick indeed.
February 18th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Wow, nice! I did like tretle said and forced installation of ubuntu-desktop and it’s very awesomey indeed!
Thanks for this piece of work:)
February 18th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Glad Ubuntu is taking a look at the aesthetics direction.
February 18th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Why does it use a custom font and doesn\\\’t obey the font preferences (hinting, LCD mode)?
February 18th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
are there any screen shots or videos of this?
February 18th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
@Miguel, tretle, Vadim: We did put (and are still putting) a lot of thought and effort into this. So, thanks a lot on behalf of the dx- and design-team. We appreciate it!
@Tobias: Just not picked up yet. I wrote that down.
@artst: Have look at http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/253
February 18th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
@Mirco:
What about if someone dislike those kind of notification and wants to use the previous one?
I want interactive notifications, like the ones in packagekit
February 18th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Great work!
Where can I report bugs? I noticed it doesn’t handle dual screens correctly.
February 18th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
The new notifications look nice. But I’m, well, less than enthusiastic, about notifications with actions having turned into ordinary dialog boxes that have to be dismissed manually.
February 18th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
@Andrea: Just get rid of the package "alsdorf" (note: soon to be renamed "notify-osd") and reinstall the old notification-daemon.
@Eric: Known bug I’ll fix soon. The bug-tracker lives on https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/notify-osd
@Johan: That’s a temporary fall back to remind us which apps we still need to patch. The "annoyance-factor" for those fallback-dialogs is high for a reason
The final release will not have those anymore.
February 19th, 2009 at 1:42 am
what will happen to active notifications? (click here to skip this song, click here to update, don’t show this message again)
February 19th, 2009 at 5:13 am
Can someone please post a video or something. I am not running Jaunty
February 19th, 2009 at 11:07 am
@Andrea: These apps need to be patched to not abuse notifications for such interactions.
@John: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/253
February 19th, 2009 at 11:31 am
@MacSlow: That is a mockup
February 19th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
@John - it looks identical minus the animations bringing the notifications back into the taskbar.
February 19th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
@tretle: Yeah, we decided against that. But somehow I still like it a bit
February 20th, 2009 at 3:10 am
Ooo… I sense some unflexible people protesting against the new notification way.
February 20th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Nofiy-OSD doesn’t seem to work the volume display. I just get an empty box when changing volume.
February 20th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
@Ripps: From now on please use https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/notify-osd for any bug-reports. Make sure you use the Human-icon-theme (for maximal visual slickness
and update gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-power-manager (these include patches to now use libnotify thus our new notification-daemon "notify-osd"). Not sure though how fast updates go through the build-server and land in repositories. Your mileage may vary.
February 21st, 2009 at 2:35 pm
ohh, nice. I hated the old notifications since I got my bluetooth mouse. The \
February 21st, 2009 at 2:36 pm
oops. there seems to be a problem with your quotation-escaping function. my comment didn’t end with a backslash
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:52 am
@pascal: Perhaps, I guess the site could use a update to WordPress *sigh*
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:55 pm
hi,
this is very slick, I am imressed, and I hope ubuntu will follow this way, and improve the user experience. However, I dont get why you guys decided to get make notifications that you can only read.. did u investigate the osx system? they dont have any button on the messages, but you can click to on the whole message to switch to the program it came from. It is very annoying when I get a new IM message so my client send me a notification and I cant just click and get to its window, so I have to search among fifteen windows to find the one who sent the notification.. think about it, it works great on OSX.
February 25th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Just want to support Osliner: Absolutely right, the notification should be able to react on a mouse click, e.g. open the right window.