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Re: [Ayatana] Things I have noticed



mac_v wrote:

Jacob Peddicord wrote:

Wouldn't the proper way to remedy this would be to close communication
applications during a presentation? I won't disagree that disabling
notifications for a time would be useful, but if you don't want Pidgin
triggering notifications for a presentation, then close Pidgin.


so the user has to compromise? ! this is not a solution!

the user might be online with an important work user during the meeting
giving updates , but since he might be disturbed by personal buddy
message he has to triage his work/friends and create separate accounts
just because the system wont allow easy ways to close the notifications?

or a simpler way might be disable all messages? as someone said not all
the presentations are fullscreen presentations.

this is a problem not necessarily disturbance during a presentation, but
during any system usage, imagine the a *co-worker popping by* and is
checking ur work , does he need to be notified too of ur personal mails?!

*this system is just an embarrassment waiting to happen for the user* !


We definitely want two things:
1. Provide a reasonable default configuration that will make most people happy most of the time.
2. Provide a way for the user to explicitly block and unblock most if not all notifications to prevent embarrassment. Even if we are perfectly prescient and block all embarrassing notifications at just the right times, the user will still have an uneasy feeling if the blocking is not somehow made explicit, either by requiring user interaction, or displaying some sort of persistent "notifications are blocked" icon. 

David



so now ,is the solution never to have an im/email client open?

i would say the presence of a easy close, would be a welcome solution.

cheers,
mac_v


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