Some UX changes to Screenshooter

[Steve Dodier-Lazaro]

Hi Guido,

You're correct, indeed there may be notification daemons that don't show
your notifications directly and I shouldn't rely on that.I'll try and hack
some text over the overlay instead as you suggested.




2014-04-30 8:03 GMT+01:00 Guido Berhoerster <gber at opensuse.org>:

> * Guido Berhoerster <gber at opensuse.org> [2014-04-30 08:52]:
> > Hi,
> >
> > * Steve Dodier-Lazaro <sidnioulz at gmail.com> [2014-04-30 02:05]:
> > >     * lib/screenshooter-capture.c, configure.ac.in, Makefile.am:
> Notify the
> > > ability to cancel a
> > >     region selection with Esc -- this is somewhat controversial as it
> > > requires a dependency to
> > >     libnotify -- however that lib is already used by xfce4-volumed,
> > > xfce4-power-manager, Thunar and
> > >     obviously xfce4-notify so it would be problematic only for a
> subset of
> > > users. Of course there's
> > >     a compile-time switch. I'd like the change to occur to improve the
> > > learnability of the feature.
> > >
> > >
> https://github.com/Sidnioulz/xfce4-screenshooter/commit/3213b49f33a418f4f905c05cab357de76ce79112
> >
> > I personally dislike the use of notification for this, not
> > because of the libnotify dependency but because help messages are
> > not really their intended purpose and the notification can get in
> > the way. Maybe rendering the text on the ovelay window would be
> > better.
>
> Maybe I should have clarified, it's not personal taste or
> neatness but that you rely on an implementation detail of
> xfce4-notifyd which rather simple and always displays a simple
> notification window until it is closed, cancels or times out.
> This breaks if xfce4-notifyd gains features like KDE's or GNOME's
> notification daemons or if the user uses a different (there are
> desktop-independent implementations) or no notification daemon at
> all. notification daemons may hide notifications by default, keep
> them around in a window until they are explicitly acknowledged or
> deleted by a user or log them. This is what makes it a poor
> choice for help messages.
> --
> Guido Berhoerster
> _______________________________________________
> Xfce4-dev mailing list
> Xfce4-dev at xfce.org
> https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce4-dev
>



-- 
Steve Dodier-Lazaro
PhD Student in Information Security
University College London
Free Software Developer
OpenPGP : 1B6B1670
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/attachments/20140430/075ad1d1/attachment.html>