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["Fabian A. Scherschel" <fabsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

Wouldn't it be much smarter for the system to detect when you do something
in fullscreen (like watching a movie) and queue the notifications somehow?
It could present them later in some kind of advance dialog or something when
the user is finished with whatever he/she was doing.

Cheers,
Fab


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On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:01 PM, ajmctaggart <ajmctaggart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So something of an "offline mode," similar to that of mobile phones?
>
> I really like this idea, and agree that as I'm also mostly a user
> interested in usability, the issue of notifications popping up while
> watching a movie in full screen would be annoying with others, not so
> annoying by myself.
>
> I also like the concept of an "offline," icon involved in there.  Far too
> often, I forget that I actually made a setting change, and never went back
> to return it to the default.
>      The iPhone uses the airplane icon, no...
>      My Nokia phones simply give me an "X" and the text "Offline"...
>
>      Perhaps something like a comic strip text bubble's silhouette with a
> red "X"; Some visual reference that reminds the user, "notifications are
> offline until you change that"...
>
> Anthony
>
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