Hit Las Palmas
Arrived at the hotel/summit. Going to head to the venue with a couple of folks soon.
And a small screencast for the day. Testing out the new blur-cache meant for notify-osd:
It’s easy on CPU. So light actually, that I was able to record this very screencast with recordmydesktop on a Dell Mini 9. This is finally also using the subtle text drop-shadow the design folks asked for. Color, font, size and all are just randomly picked by me, as this is a test-program to exercise the small interal APIs I created for implementing the blur-cache.
Edit: I forgot to mention it, that I’m doing this work in a branch currently. It’s lp:~macslow/notify-osd/blur-cache.
July 3rd, 2009 at 6:38 pm
What’s that font you are using for menus and such?
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Very slick! I’m always a sucker for a nice dropshadow.
As a KDE fanboy, I have to say it’s currently looking nicer than the KDE 4.3 notifications. (Although I still like my actions on them).
What happens if your cursor happens to be where the notifications come up, when an important notification comes in? Would it fade completely in and immediately out? WOuld the notification not come up at all?
Inquiring minds want to know!
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:43 pm
It looks confusing. When something popups on the screen, my natural instinct is to move the mouse pointer that way. When the message box disappears when I do that, it is very confusing.
July 3rd, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Hm, this is not in trunk yet ?
July 3rd, 2009 at 9:33 pm
My guess would be the font is Candara. Am I right?
July 3rd, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Nice to see the video clip come through via planet.gnome.org and play in my feed reader. This video tag thing might catch on.
July 4th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
@ Robin, Alex: Yes, it’s Candara.
@ Bugsbane: Thanks first of all. The spec says (and I still have to implement it), that in this case the bubble should show up as normal and only fade to the usual mouse-over state (that is: content blurred, opacity set to 40%) once the mouse is moved again.
@ Wouter: Please remember, these are not your typical interactive windows or dialogs. These are passive and ephemeral notification-bubbles. We already made them visually distinct from normal windows and they behave differently (click-through, fade-on-hover/mouse-over). Think of them as “on screen displays” (there’s osd in the name “notify-osd” for a reason *g*).
@ Steve: Correct, I forgot to mention it, that I’m doing that in a branch currently (bzr branch lp:~macslow/notify-osd/blur-cache). I’ve some refactoring to do in notify-osd to cleanly integrate the blur-cache and want to tighten the code a bit more anyway overall.
@ Bod: So your feed-reader is based on the new gecko?
July 6th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
I was reading it in Newsgator’s Mac OS X native client (NetNewsWire) which uses WebKit, and I had the XiphQT plugins installed.