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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Summary changed:

- Need better usability when two alarms kick at the same time
+ Competing notifications when two alarms kick at the same time

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1358890

Title:
  Competing notifications when two alarms kick at the same time

Status in The Date and Time Indicator:
  Confirmed
Status in Ubuntu UX bugs:
  Confirmed
Status in “indicator-datetime” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  A cousin of bug #1354406

  Some of the early testers are hitting a use case that we didn't
  account for, that of multiple alarms set for the same time.

  Indicator-datetime currently tries to pull up notifications for, and
  play sounds for, both notifications. That's happening by accident and
  is clearly not the right approach.

  I can think of a couple of approaches we might take:

  (1) Queue the alarms such that only one triggers at a time. This has
  the advantage of being simple, both in concept and in code. I'm not
  certain this is the most user-friendly approach, as it could be
  frustrating have to dismiss a queue of alarms.

  (2) Somehow fold multiple alarms together. This has the advantage of
  being friendlier to the user as only a single snooze/dismiss prompt
  would be given. However it opens other questions, e.g. which of the
  alarms' sounds should play?

  Of these two I slghtly prefer (1) for its simplicity; however, neither
  of these options seems perfect and I'm hoping Design may have a better
  suggestion

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