On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 09:48, Mark Shuttleworth
<mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 22/09/10 11:37,
frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> we can save ourselves a lot of annoyance by introducing Silent Mode
> finally.
> Synonyms for this use case have been "DoNotDisturb", Busy mode or
> NotAvailable to name most of them.
>
> The high level concept of Silent Mode active during a Desktop session
> is that the user has a simple way of enabling an disturbance-free
> experience in order to be able to focus on an important task, work,
> project, conversation, movie, audio or what have you.
>
> Has anyone started speccing this out already?
or I'll review it with you until it gets approval and then it can be
queued for 11.10. This is LOOOONG overdue, and I appreciate your offer
of help.
This has probably been lying around for so long, because of design conflicts with how the Ayatana subsystem is currently wired.
* Presence has no local effect
* Presence has no effect on Skype (except with Pidgin running)
* System Sounds are not connected with notifications (perhaps with Dylan's patch?)
-> Dylan, what's the status/bug ;) ?
I decided to focus on these issues first, to think my way through these problems, before i plot yet another meaningless feature.
Busy aka DoNotDisturb has been around for as long as i know Presence in IM, now is the time to implement it for the local system.
I would like to discuss the above problems in order to get some opinions, before i am confident that i can draft a simple spec for "Silent Mode" aka "Do Not Disturb" aka Presence="Busy".
OTOH, if the ideas we have produced in recent threads suffice in your eyes, i'd gladly sum them up and formalize them in a Spec draft!
other issues in the same domain:
* Invisible doesn't really work - it jumps to busy always
* the Session Menu is on the wrong side of the panel (imo)