Re: [Ayatana] Do Not Disturb

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx wrote on 02/01/11 05:13:
>...
> today, i was working on some UML, trying myself with a complex diagram.
> I'm so so bad with UML, so i was forced to focus and concentrate, i
> wanted to be undisturbed.
> The music i put on in Banshee (hell i had to start banshee first, i
> couldn't simply click play on my XF86 play button) helped me smooth out
> the waves in my mind, so i could focus better. Now after the first song
> of my soothing album had finished completed, NotifyOSD displayed album
> art and songinfo of the next song.. an intrusion!
> It took away my focus for a second, we sometimes have notifications up
> there that we don't wanna miss, so i looked at the ethereal bubble as
> it appeared up there.. and boom - i was distracted/disturbed.

This would be a good opportunity for someone with spare time to do a
competitor analysis. iTunes doesn't have notification bubbles for track
changes. Does Windows Media Player? Does foobar2000? Does Songbird? If
so, are they on by default, and how do you turn them on and off?

>...
> Obviously, what i needed today to achieve undisturbedness i needed to
> achieve my goals in focused work was nothing less than a "Notifications
> Off" button, or even better:
> a Do Not Disturb toggle.
>...

If people are annoyed by unwanted notification bubbles from Banshee,
which do you think they'll guess the purpose of more easily?
(a) a "do not disturb" item in the me menu
(b) a "Bubbles for Track Changes" item in Banshee's "View" menu

You could argue that turning off notification bubbles temporarily in
individual applications is inefficient. Part of the attractiveness of
having IM statuses in the Me menu is that (at least in theory) they save
you from having to make the same change in multiple applications. But
that efficiency isn't much use if people won't learn it in the first place.

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mpt
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