Idea #11568: Ensure all popups contain specific information

Written by belovedmonster the 27 Jul 08 at 17:07. Category: Others.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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I use Xubuntu but I presume this is true of other versions of Ubuntu.

I find from time to time I'll get a popup from the system tray that rather than giving me any actual information says something like "Something needs your attention, click the icon for more information" ...(Sorry I cant remember the exact wording).

Point is, the popup could just tell me what it is I need to do, but instead it tells me I need to click on the icon to find out what I need to do.

Urm?? WHY? I'd love to hear someone explain to me how this is good GUI and how Windows is doing it wrong by having the information in the first popup.

Everytime one of these meaningless popups comes up I always wonder why the information isnt in the popup to begin with.

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DjDarkman wrote on the 27 Jul 08 at 18:31

Because it may not fit in the popup. But an intro text could be grate.

urandom wrote on the 27 Jul 08 at 21:07

along these lines, shouldn't there be a way to disable these obnoxious popups altogether?

fcsonline wrote on the 28 Jul 08 at 11:21

Ensure all popups contain specific information
&
Suggest an action-> to solve/act over the contexto of message

+1

KIAaze wrote on the 28 Jul 08 at 13:54

"Because it may not fit in the popup. But an intro text could be great."
If it doesn't fit in the popup (and there's no specific intro text/title available), just cut the text.

tgape wrote on the 28 Jul 08 at 16:32

IMHO, each of these pop-ups is a bug, to be filed with the respective product.

Note: not being able to fit all of the information reasonably into the dialog is not an excuse to not put anything meaningful into the dialog. The dialog should have at least some useful information. The dialog should also clearly indicate the product it's associated with; most of them do, but some don't. The dialog should clearly indicate what triggered it. The vast majority of dialogs only do this implicitly, and that works for most of them. When implicit doesn't work, the dialog should contain the additional information.

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