On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:41:28PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 10:24:17AM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > * An icon, perhaps a flashing "!", to indicate that updates are > > available. > > Whatever you do, don't do the flashing. Flashing and animating draw > far too much attention; effectively this puts psychological pressure on > people to update immediately, as soon as there's a release. You could do something similar to the way wmbiff behaves; if there is new mail in a mailbox, it flashes three or four times then sits there with the number of new messages displayed in a different color. I don't find that annoying, and there is not a constant flashing on the desktop that would, I agree, get rather annoying. Cheers, Aeddan. -- Chris Anderson, aeddan@myinternet.com.au http://www.myinternet.com.au/ gpg fingerprint: BBCA 6DCE 7B07 D5B9 4EE1 8893 916B 47E1 7F57 4CB0
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