On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 12:03 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: > http://identi.ca/notice/13932136 > > Matthias, Jon, et al., I'm interested in your take on the above, so I > can authentically characterize the work you've done on notification > theming. But yeah, the Growl notification system for Mac OS X has had notification windows like this since 2005 - maybe earlier. Smoke notification style, bottom of http://growl.info/screenshots.php May '05: Growl 0.7 adds a mouseover effect for Smoke: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24638&vid=206464&mode=info Jan '07: 3rd-party screenshots show it in wide use, e.g.: http://www.tribler.org/trac/wiki/Growl Dec '08: Initial design discussions of Ubuntu NotifyOSD http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/253 Feb '09: NotifyOSD wiki page created https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD?action=recall&rev=1 At this point it's old enough to almost be a visual cliché. But if someone wants to insist on giving credit for the design that's where I'd think the credit might be due. -w -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
