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Praveen <tgpraveen89@xxxxxxxxx>Date: Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Subject: Notification in fullscreen apps
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ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxI recently read the karmic-notify-osd proposal and it has a section for what is to done when applications are fullscreen, it currently states that non-critical bubbles must be suppressed.
Are notifications from pidgin/empathy considered critical or non-critical?
I think that the right way of dealing with fullscreen applications is to not suppress notifications by default. instead providing a global do-not-disturb mode is more useful as whatever we do we may never guess the intentions of the user.
Eg.1. Say i am waiting for a IM from my friend, and while waiting i decide to watch a movie. Then if by default i don't get notified while i am watching the movie in fullscreen and the movie goes on for 2 hours, then this is undesirable. Also IMs are meant to be acted upon instantly.
With email this gets more complicated. Some people with some emails want to reply immediately and would like to be notified. Some people get 100's of email and possibly reply only once a day to emails.
2. I set a reminder in evolution for an event to occur after 1 hour and watch some documentary. I certainly dont want to miss the reminder.
3.I might be watching a movie while i wait for a torrent to finish downloading. In this case notification for loss of net connection is important,but in other cases it might not be.
So i suggest guessing what notifications user wants or doesn't want in fullscreen is not really possible. Hence by default they must be displayed in fullscreen and a do-not-disturb mode along with the system indicator+message indicator should be a option to be set.
What do others think on this?