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[Natan Yellin <aantny@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:00 PM, David Siegel <david.siegel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
>
> 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.

What about just a keyboard shortcut and/or an option under the systray icon?

It's also worth considering having a keyboard shortcut to force-hide the
current notification.

Natan