Cranky opinion: Notification systems make sense on phones, but have never made sense on desktop/laptop computers. I feel like I basically never get a notification on a desktop unless it's either some kind of ad or just the OS vendor deciding to annoy me.
Even on Linux, the notification system finds ways to show me ads for… other parts of Linux?
@mcc lol Ubuntu appears to continue its slide into being ever more Windows-like UX wise.
(definitely agree with your point about desktop notifications, and every Linux DE that has em has seemed pointless and annoying; just hadn't seen that Ubuntu one before)
@mcc the one version of them i could imagine being useful are like, opt-in: when a long copy or compile operation is happening, something you could click on (context menu maybe?) that says like "give me a little notification toast when this specific thing is done"
@jplebreton @mcc you used to be able to have the web browser toast you when all downloads were finished. i liked that a lot for big files. now i don't think it's an option anymore and you also can't have the progress bars on the status line anymore. i don't like the pie-chart-button thing everybody does now. [/cane-shaking]
