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[Sohail Mirza <mirzmaster@xxxxxxxxx>]

To be quite honest, if the movie is any good, I will likely miss the
notification anyways... but that's just me!  :)

If I really wanted to watch something while waiting for a particular
notification, I would probably keep exiting full-screen to double-check my
email/IM manually (I could've missed the notification, or maybe I'm just
being antsy).  On the other hand, if it wasn't something I was waiting for,
but just mildly interested in catching, well... I would probably finish my
movie first.

I don't disagree that there might be the odd case where I'm watching a movie
and I wouldn't mind being interrupted by an IM.  In this case we should
think of a way to allow this, but without complex configuration or
additional dialogues.

One thing to bear in mind is that receiving an unwanted (non-critical)
notification is usually more detrimental than missing a wanted
notification.  I can cite two examples of this:  1)  Of course, when making
a presentation, it's an absolute no-no to have a dialogue or notification
pop-up in front.  2)  If I'm at work I generally do not want IM
notifications popping up at all in case a co-worker is strolling by and
glances at my screen.

The "fullscreen = i'm busy" assumption is one step towards eliminating
unwanted notifications.  The second step might be having notify-osd observe
an availability indicator of some sort, or just having a way of disabling
certain types of notifications.

To summarize, I think the mandate here is two-fold:  1)  To reduce the
occurrences of unwanted notifications rather than making sure every
notification is displayed.  2)  To accomplish this in a way that is
virtually zero-configuration.


On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Vincenzo Ciancia <ciancia@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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.
>



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