[Do Not Disturb]
A brief user story:
today, i was working on some UML, trying myself with a complex diagram. I'm so so bad with UML, so i was forced to focus and concentrate, i wanted to be undisturbed.
The music i put on in Banshee (hell i had to start banshee first, i couldn't simply click play on my XF86 play button) helped me smooth out the waves in my mind, so i could focus better. Now after the first song of my soothing album had finished completed, NotifyOSD displayed album art and songinfo of the next song.. an intrusion!
It took away my focus for a second, we sometimes have notifications up there that we don't wanna miss, so i looked at the ethereal bubble as it appeared up there.. and boom - i was distracted/disturbed.
My IM is off, but i still see the envelope, that's another distraction, but i think we can come to that topic later, or in another thread altogether.
Obviously, what i needed today to achieve undisturbedness i needed to achieve my goals in focused work was nothing less than a "Notifications Off" button, or even better:
a Do Not Disturb toggle.
What does Do Not Disturb mean?
1) All notifications are disabled
2) Update Manager doesn't pop up
3) Screensaver doesn't kick in
what am i missing?
After brief discussion in IRC we also established, it might even be an option to put such a button into the Session Menu.
In any case, what we're aiming at is to have an undisturbed gnome-session experience.
Eventually, with MPT's help, i became aware that adding more complexity to any menu would be counterproductive.
Leaves me with concluding that a Do Not Disturb button wants to reside in the Me Menu.
There are more questions to be asked, but i think these should suffice for a collaborative brainstorm effort..