Re:The Poetterisation of GNU/Linux (2013)
by sliken on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @05:14AM
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Does seem like the gnome folks value their purity over any kind of usability.
A very popular feature with gnome + thunderbird for awhile was that new email would trigger a desktop notification. Mentioning a snippet of subject and body of the email.
If you thought it was interesting you could click on it and it would open that email in the main window. Handy if you get lots of email and filter heavily, it might be in any of 100s of folders.
Then they decided that notifications should be read only, so now when you mouse over it it goes transparent. There's no way to figure out what email that was, so it just taunts you, then disappears.
As if a notification you can click on would hurt anyone.
A very popular feature with gnome + thunderbird for awhile was that new email would trigger a desktop notification. Mentioning a snippet of subject and body of the email.
If you thought it was interesting you could click on it and it would open that email in the main window. Handy if you get lots of email and filter heavily, it might be in any of 100s of folders.
Then they decided that notifications should be read only, so now when you mouse over it it goes transparent. There's no way to figure out what email that was, so it just taunts you, then disappears.
As if a notification you can click on would hurt anyone.