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[Praveen <tgpraveen89@xxxxxxxxx>]

You are right and hence the only sane way of solving the problem seems to be
to give user the control to seta  global do-not-disturb mode when he needs
it and logging the messages that he misses.This has several advantages such
as

1. No need to predict anything as predictions go wrong a lot.
2. Since user is in control there is less uncertainity.
3. The do-not-disturb mode is useful in many situations apart from
fullscreen apps. Say i am writing a document in openoffice and it is very
important and i must not be disturbed in any way. Then i simply set the
do-not-disturb mode. Voila. 1 setting many uses.

And there are no disadvantages of this solution which i see.

2009/7/7 Vincenzo Ciancia <ciancia@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> Martín Soto ha scritto:
>
>  On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Steve Dodier <sidnioulz@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:
>> sidnioulz@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>    What about console-presenter and evince / other PDF viewers ? They're
>>    used too for presentations. I don't think we can maintain an
>>    exhaustive list of applications, so maybe we should provide the user
>>    with a GUI to tell which apps shouldnt be overriden and in which
>>    circumstances (and have our own default apps there, like Evince in
>>    fullscreen, Presenter in fullscreen, etc).
>>
>>
>> How many applications are there that are *commonly* used for giving
>> presentations? Five? Ten, maybe? I really don't see a reason why this
>> couldn't be done in a per-application basis.
>>
>
> Martin: it suffers from the same problem as full-screen movies. If I am
> preparing for a presentation, I can be interrupted by mom, and if I don't
> want it I can set my state to busy. If I am actually showing the
> presentation, then I certainly don't want to be interrupted by ordinary
> notifications.
>
> Vincenzo
>
>
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