Re: [Rails-devel] Making Rails more suited to fast interactive play.

[Rick W. <wes...@pu...>]

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> Each to their own of course, just providing my personal opinions :)
> 
> I think we can generally agree that intrusiveness is bad (since if you
> are using it real-time, you are paying attention anyway ...

   Actually that is not, at least in my case, totally true.  While I'll keep Rails open on one screen on my other screen I'll be checking email, surfing the web, or even trying to figure out the Rails code and how to modify it.  :-)   Some sort of notification -- audible or flashing of the screen, or even a pop-up to catch the corner of my eye -- is handy.  Otherwise I have to manually check the status.    Of course for people who don't want the popup then it should be able to be turned off.

   In many ways this is like email or twitter or IM.  You don't want to be glued to your email/twitter/IM screen waiting for the next message.  On the other hand you often want to be notified in a timely manner that something is happening -- thus a pop or something on the notification bar is desired.  Yet there are also times when you just want to drop out and not be notified that a new message is waiting for you.

   Basically I think that we all agree that if there are popups implemented then they should be able to be toggled.  I just do not want to see the idea of popups disappear entirely.

-- Rick