Visual results of recent work
What the urgency-level bar-display looks like (see also here):
Corrected throbbing and proximity-fade in action:
Last but not least here is a sneak peak of work-in-progress on better and faster blurring:
What the urgency-level bar-display looks like (see also here):
Corrected throbbing and proximity-fade in action:
Last but not least here is a sneak peak of work-in-progress on better and faster blurring:
June 22nd, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Looks good, but please let the blurring be optional or configurable, at least for my eyes it’s painful…
June 22nd, 2009 at 1:29 pm
@ Tassos: Please understand that I’m displaying the speed at which I can do blurs now (without GPU support), thus I animated it in the example-program “Blur’R Us” you see in the screencast. notify-osd will not use the blur in this way, but like https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD#Interaction and like you see in the throbbing-screencast. All that is part of the optimizing and tuning work underway for notify-osd in the current Karmic development-cycle.
June 22nd, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Hmm. Annoyingly, these clips and other clips on your page autobuffered, meaning I just download over a dozen megabytes incidentally. While in this case I did want to see them, I didn’t really want to download all the ones below it. And look, when I refresh, they’re buffering anew. Hmm? Is that something controllable on your end? I’m afraid I’ll begin to dislike the video element
June 22nd, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Is there still design work pending for this? It looks visually tacked on compared to the spec on the ubuntu wiki. Also, keep rocking the desktop graphics!
June 22nd, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Nice work. I don’t think that an urgency-level bar is really needed for actions such as changing volume, etc - might as well keep this blank and focus only on “high” and “low” priorities to show up the bar, not normal ones.
June 22nd, 2009 at 2:39 pm
@Michael:Visual tweaks will only be minor (except for the pending blur-on-hover maybe). Drop-shadows for text is still missing too. All those minor things sadly have huge consequences on internal design and performance-considerations.
June 22nd, 2009 at 2:44 pm
@ Richard: Try a newer RC of Firefox 3.5. The one I just grabbed today doesn’t autoload videos by default. The RC I had before did so… very annoying indeed. Looking at the HTML5 video-tag spec I don’t see anything in the options you can state in the video-tag controlling autoloading or not. I guess that’s purely within the responsibility of the browser-developers implementing the HTML5 video-tag spec.
June 22nd, 2009 at 4:25 pm
http://blog.mozbox.org/post/2009/05/31/VideoAudioUpdates
As you noted, the newest RC doesn’t autobuffer the videos, but this can be controlled manually with the autobuffer attribute.
June 22nd, 2009 at 4:50 pm
blur is not available on intel gma945, right?
and personally i don’t like the proximity fade thingy.. i prefer growl’s way where you can click the notification to go away rather than fading and the ability to click through the notification. besides that, notify-osd looks great.
June 22nd, 2009 at 6:29 pm
@baze: Please read what I replied to Tassos further up.
June 22nd, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Hmm, what\’s that window switching effect? Is that available for Compiz on 8.10 and if yes, what\’s it called?
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:11 pm
@ Vincent: It is called “dodge” (not sure how that is translated into Dutch, but in German it’s “Ausweichen”) and I use a duration of 350 ms for it. You can grab my compiz-profile settings here: http://macslow.net/compiz-default.profile
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Thank you for sharing - it\’s really great to be able to keep up with your work. Keep the \
June 23rd, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Codename: ich geb mir die kugel NO, please don\’t, you do a great job all in all
(And yes, the capcha does suck)
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:37 pm
@ jpf: Tja, leider ist das Entwickler-Leben nicht immer lustig. Das Wochenende war echt ätzend.
June 25th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Is that urgency thing going to be optional? I find it to be pretty distracting to be honest, and I really don’t like the way it looks.
I’d rather prefer if ‘urgency’ was used to prioritize or even suppress notifications, like say: suppress the notification of a song change if there’s lots of other, more important notifications like disk space warnings or instant messages happening at the same time.
Sorry if this is already being discussed somewhere else, but your blog is the first place I saw this.
June 25th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
ok, sorry, I had a reading comprehension fail, this is just a debug thing, apparently.
carry on
July 17th, 2009 at 6:25 am
Pretty amazing stuff here. Stunning work on the software blurs too. Wow.
I have only one hope and that is that the notification colour coding is palettized to a proper palette as opposed to some usability thinktank on colour.
Great work MacSlow…
TJS