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[Vincenzo Ciancia <ciancia@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Il 07/07/2009 17:34, Sohail Mirza ha scritto:
> Weighed against the configuration set and dialogues being proposing, I
> still think that "full-screen = I'm busy" is a reasonable assumption to
> make with the vast majority of the user population.  I would venture a
> guess that most users don't even use, let alone understand how to,
> full-screen non-media applications like Firefox or monodevelop.

Come on, forget about presentations, my mother does not do that. The 
other two full-screen apps are firefox (press F11, and I learned that 
from non-nerds) and the movie player. Plus flash which probably uses its 
own method. Just let us concentrate on movies. Do you agree that when 
you watch a movie you may be willing to be interrupted or not for 
reasons that no machine will understand at least with current 
technology? I mean: I have to wait for my colleague to contact me with a 
patch. I watch a movie in the meantime. I want to watch it fullscreen. 
This is no nerdy or special need. Just the fact that the two use cases 
(block notifications, and go full screen) are often  independent even if 
they look related. But I think there is already general agreement on this.