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[Mirko <1749772@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I recently switched to linux and I'm almost tempted to give up on it
because something I considered as an essential feature isn't available
and I found no way to fix it:

If devs decide not to allow notify-osd notifications to be shown over a
fullscreen application by default because, as I found out, people
requested it, others who want them to show should have the ability to
decide whether at least critical notifications should show. Why
shouldn't the volume or brightness bar appear over a fullscreen movie or
video whenever the levels are adjusted? Really, who would think of it as
bothersome? If they do they can disable all notifications over
fullscreen or have it by default, but then people who want them should
have the possibility to have them over fullscreen apps.

I'm very disappointed, I chose linux because I thought of it as highly
customizable, even if I had to learn the code to do that, but notify-osd
it's very limited, it has no settings at all, not even a duration
parameter, people had to release modified versions of notify-osd to
overcome some personalization limits (but not for fullscreen
notification), I could have expected it on an apple environment, but
definitely not on linux. Would a couple of lines of code added actually
hog the system? I think not.

You should give us the ability to set certain parameters at least the
most basic ones.

** Affects: notify-osd (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Information type changed from Private Security to Public

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1749772

Title:
  Notify-osd critical notifications should appear over fullscreen

Status in notify-osd package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I recently switched to linux and I'm almost tempted to give up on it
  because something I considered as an essential feature isn't available
  and I found no way to fix it:

  If devs decide not to allow notify-osd notifications to be shown over
  a fullscreen application by default because, as I found out, people
  requested it, others who want them to show should have the ability to
  decide whether at least critical notifications should show. Why
  shouldn't the volume or brightness bar appear over a fullscreen movie
  or video whenever the levels are adjusted? Really, who would think of
  it as bothersome? If they do they can disable all notifications over
  fullscreen or have it by default, but then people who want them should
  have the possibility to have them over fullscreen apps.

  I'm very disappointed, I chose linux because I thought of it as highly
  customizable, even if I had to learn the code to do that, but notify-
  osd it's very limited, it has no settings at all, not even a duration
  parameter, people had to release modified versions of notify-osd to
  overcome some personalization limits (but not for fullscreen
  notification), I could have expected it on an apple environment, but
  definitely not on linux. Would a couple of lines of code added
  actually hog the system? I think not.

  You should give us the ability to set certain parameters at least the
  most basic ones.

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