On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Sohail Mirza
<mirzmaster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would think that taking an application into full-screen allows us to safely assume the user is making the following statement: "this application is the only thing I'm interested in right now". It follows from this that non-critical notifications should be suppressed while viewing a full-screen application.
Definitely not. I put firefox, and monodevelop into full screen all the time, not because I'm super focused on reading the latest posting of cuteoverload, but because I want the little bit of extra screen real estate. I know many people who do this. Full screen is not a proper heuristic for "is busy", as nice as it would be if it were.