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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The problem that's blocked me until now, in designing a solution for
this, is that a Do Not Disturb mode would so often be forgotten. To be
effective, you'd need to remember to turn it on every time you launched
the particular app, or went into the particular app mode, and turn it
off afterwards. And often you'd forget at least one of those.

But System Settings on the phone already includes a design (not yet
implemented) for controlling which apps can use notification bubbles at
all. As the designs for form factors converge, I guess it makes sense
for the PC to have equivalent settings. Those can then tie in to Do Not
Disturb mode. You could let each app use notification bubbles at any
time, never, or only at times when DND mode is off.

A remaining issue will be how to categorize notification bubbles that
don't come from a particular app: for example, print jobs and Wi-Fi
connections.

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Title:
  Provide a configurable DND mode rather than suppressing all async
  notifications in fullscreen apps

Status in “notify-osd” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: notify-osd

  Just noticed that the recent notify-osd behavior ,in Karmic,
  suppresses all the async notifications during full screen apps!

  This is a bit frustrating , because now 
  - I'm not notified about loss of network connectivity!
  - when IM messages are received the lack of notifications forces me to escape from full-screen mode and check with the IM client as to who sent the IM . Previously it was easier to know who had sent it and i could choose if i wanted to reply immediately or not.
  - I'm not notified about new mail arrivals.

  I believe there was a lengthy discussion in the Ayatana Mailing list and the decision was to :
  - Use a DND mode in the FUSA/indicator-session
  - Not show notifications only when the user has selected the DND mode.

  If the DND is not possible to implement in this cycle , Kindly dont
  suppress the notifications.

  I didnt notice this behavior earlier , i just imagined I missed the
  notifications when using fullscreen apps.

  I think it started occurring from update notify-osd (0.9.19-0ubuntu1) to
  0.9.20-0ubuntu1 . 

  Ever since the slots have been assigned i have never seen the async bubbles
  when running any app in full screen mode. [firefox , totem, vlc , OOo.org , EOG]

  
  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  CheckboxSubmission: 417990aadff2335cd485c57bb06c8968
  CheckboxSystem: 5484a8dd99f006173bd2ac53fa4837c2
  Date: Sat Sep 12 22:39:59 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  GtkTheme: VDust Sand
  IconTheme: Aero-CrazyFolk-RC1
  MachineType: Acer, inc. Aspire 5670
  Package: notify-osd 0.9.21-0ubuntu2
  PccardctlIdent:
   Socket 0:
     no product info available
  PccardctlStatus:
   Socket 0:
     no card
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-10-generic root=UUID=070f2a33-a167-4055-9429-e626203105d4 ro splash
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.32-generic
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
   libgl1-mesa-glx 7.7.0~git20090911.a79eecb9-0ubuntu0tormod
   libdrm2 2.4.13-1ubuntu1
   xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.99.901~git20090909.efbcf29d-0ubuntu0tormod
   xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090911.ac853ca0-0ubuntu0tormod
  SourcePackage: notify-osd
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686
  WindowManager: compiz
  dmi.bios.date: 02/08/06
  dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
  dmi.bios.version: v1.3219
  dmi.board.name: Bodensee
  dmi.board.vendor: Acer, Inc.
  dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
  dmi.chassis.type: 1
  dmi.chassis.vendor: , Inc.
  dmi.chassis.version: N/A
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrv1.3219:bd02/08/06:svnAcer,inc.:pnAspire5670:pvrNotApplicable:rvnAcer,Inc.:rnBodensee:rvrNotApplicable:cvn,Inc.:ct1:cvrN/A:
  dmi.product.name: Aspire 5670
  dmi.product.version: Not Applicable
  dmi.sys.vendor: Acer, inc.

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