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[Alex Launi <alex.launi@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Sohail Mirza <mirzmaster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I would think that taking an application into full-screen allows us to
> safely assume the user is making the following statement:  "this application
> is the only thing I'm interested in right now".  It follows from this that
> non-critical notifications should be suppressed while viewing a full-screen
> application.


Definitely not. I put firefox, and monodevelop into full screen all the
time, not because I'm super focused on reading the latest posting of
cuteoverload, but because I want the little bit of extra screen real estate.
I know many people who do this. Full screen is not a proper heuristic for
"is busy", as nice as it would be if it were.


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--Alex Launi