While I can understood the logic behind libnotify and its various cousins, I'll never know why would anyone want their computer to jump up and irritate them for reasons as unimportant as the availability of a software update. And now this nonsense is coming to an emacsen near you. Of course this isn't in the official emacs distribution, but still... I feel the sanctity of emacs has been violated (tongue firmly in cheek hah!).
I won't pretend to know the first thing about HCI. I guess it's reasonable to destroy the user's concentration with a pop-up if the laptop is about to run out of power, but most things (like software updates) could make due with an interface which functions more like email. Let there be an inbox which accumulates new messages which I can check at my leisure.
Machines should not jump up and down and yell and scream at their users at the drop of a hat.
I won't pretend to know the first thing about HCI. I guess it's reasonable to destroy the user's concentration with a pop-up if the laptop is about to run out of power, but most things (like software updates) could make due with an interface which functions more like email. Let there be an inbox which accumulates new messages which I can check at my leisure.
Machines should not jump up and down and yell and scream at their users at the drop of a hat.
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Yeah. Even if it doesn't steal focus, the fact of receiving a notification is unnecessarily distracting. I used to hate Firefox's download manager for that, but someone must have changed that for 2.0 or something.
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