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[Scott Ritchie <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 01/06/2009 alle 21.59 +0200, Mark Shuttleworth ha
> scritto:
>> 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.
> 
> Excuse me for being naive, but what about delaying notifications until
> the keyboard and mouse are inactive (with a short timeout maybe)? Even
> better, when X reports any input activity! 
> 
> After all, nobody is going to type or move the mouse constantly, and
> certainly if I am typing or moving the mouse I doing something, and I
> don't want to move my eyes from where I am looking at. 
> 
> Also notice that less advanced users look at the keyboard while typing,
> hence they might completely miss notifications.
> 

If I'm playing Frozen Bubble I want to be notified, even though I'm
using my keyboard constantly.  Even if I don't want to interrupt my
game, I may find it very strange that the notification I just got for an
instant message actually happened a few minutes ago.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie