Clipboard Notification

[Mikus Grinbergs]

> When an activity launches it brings up an instance of the notification icon
> in the activity tray. I'm trying to make it so when someone copies something
> instead of it popping up the frame for a second it shows a pulsing
> notification icon in the top left hand corner.

Personal note:  Been running the "new look" Sugar/Joyride for a 
while.  [It does what you describe when an Activity is launched.]

I've now trained myself to notice the pulsing icon in the top left 
hand corner -- but I think that is an easily-overlooked location 
(particularly since current notification icons have the same 
background color as the "border" in which they sit).

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I am a believer in "show notifications where the user is looking, 
not off in a corner somewhere":


When an asynchronous notification occurs, the user should NOT be 
"taken away" from what he is doing.  Absent a "bell", the simplest 
"alert" I can think of is to "flash" the screen once (change its 
brightness for half a second, then go back to the way it was). That 
tells the user: "a notification has occurred".  [It is up to the 
user, at his convenience, to look for the actual notification.]


When a _synchronous_ notification occurs (i.e., 'feedback' to 
confirm the user's action), such as when an activity is launched, I 
would like that feedback (unless it takes more than five seconds) 
to occur right where the user performed the action (e.g., where the 
cursor was).

[If there is a notification associated with *putting* something 
where the Frame would show it, "pulse" (or temporarily distinguish) 
whatever is being put.  If the user wants to *verify* that the thing 
is sitting where it was put, *then* let him call up the Frame.]


mikus