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[Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:
> kwin can also know when a dropdown or context menu is open. i've been looking 
> into the possibility of delaying notifications which occur during these types 
> of interactions for n seconds. several researcher groups have found significant 
> benefits for these types of "computer-mediated" interruptions.
>   
That sounds very useful - both dropdowns and menus have "brittle state",
it's hard to recover from a slip except by reproducing the actions that
setup that point in the interaction. I'd be +1 on deferring, at least
for a few seconds, async notification display under those circumstances
in notify-osd.

Mark

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