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Bug 505319 - notification icon animation distracting
notification icon animation distracting
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: tracker
Classification: Core
Component: General
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Jamie McCracken
Jamie McCracken
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-12-23 23:07 UTC by Dean Sas
Modified: 2008-04-14 20:40 UTC
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Description Dean Sas 2007-12-23 23:07:24 UTC 
The constant animation on the notification icon whilst indexing is quite distracting, my eye keeps being dragged up to the notification area to see what I'm being notified about. I don't think any other icon has animation (except for gnome-power-manager battery icon very slowly emptying).

It may not be as obvious that tracker is indexing, but perhaps the image could just swapped depending on whether it is indexing or not.

(To be honest I don't understand why I need to be notified that tracker is indexing (or not) at all.)
Comment 1 pkovac 2008-02-02 16:21:58 UTC 
I agree. An animated and/or blinking icon should be reserved for conditions that require the user's immediate attention, a class to which "I'm indexing" doesn't belong. Additionally, whether or not the notification icon is displayed at all should be an option easily accessible from the Search And Indexing preferences.
Comment 2 Alexander Hunziker 2008-02-25 14:30:52 UTC 
I agree as well. Animation unnecessarily distracts the user from what he's doing. When not searching for anything, tracker should go as unnoticed as possible.