[dev] Growler fade effect

[Ben Klang]

On May 19, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Jan Schneider wrote:

> Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
> 
>> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>> 
>>> Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>>> 
>>>> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>>>> 
>>>>> I really don't like the fade effect if hovering over a growler notification, and it doesn't add anything to the user experience either.
>>>>> Can we please remove this again, Michael?
>>>> 
>>>> It is very useful (I would say essential) for two reasons:
>>>> 1.) Reading a message in the preview pane - you get to the bottom of the message, and the bottom right corner is entirely unreadable until you either wait for the notification(s) to close automatically (waste of time), click on the individual close buttons (annoying, too much effort), or by simply hovering the mouse over the notification (easiest).
>>>> 2.) Composing a message is impossible when a notification appears (generally auto-save notification) and you are at the bottom line of the compose window.  Again, it is a very simple/quick fix to simply position cursor over notification, and you are able to see the text again.
>>> 
>>> It makes more sense now that I see the rationale behind it.
>>> 
>>> There is still a major problem with this: if you want to do anything with the notification, e.g. closing it or clicking an embedded link, or using an embedded form, it's next to impossible now to do any of this, because you can hardly see any notification elements anymore.
>>> The reason you mention are valid, but that one is a showstopper.
>> 
>> Possible solutions:
>> 1. Give notifications some transparency at all times.
>> 2. Don't make as transparent over mouseover.
> 
> How would that help? Either the transparency is too small to read the text below it, or too high to read the text inside. Beside that, I'm fine with a slight default transparency.
> 
> FWIW, we already have transparency in the SAPO theme for Kronolith, and it's even worse there, so much that they've turned off transparency completely (with or without hover).

I haven't seen the effect directly yet, so pardon my ignorance, but...would a compromise be that you can click anywhere on the notification (other than a link in the notification text) to dismiss the notification?  If the convenience issue is that you don't want to have to find the "close" control, this might be a working solution.

/BAK/