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apart from *where* that button will eventually be, yes, i'd love to have it!

[Do Not Disturb]

*A brief user story:*
today, i was working on some UML, trying myself with a complex diagram. I'm
so so bad with UML, so i was forced to focus and concentrate, i wanted to be
undisturbed.
The music i put on in Banshee (hell i had to start banshee first, i couldn't
simply click play on my XF86 play button) helped me smooth out the waves in
my mind, so i could focus better. Now after the first song of my soothing
album had finished completed, NotifyOSD displayed album art and songinfo of
the next song.. an intrusion!
It took away my focus for a second, we sometimes have notifications up there
that we don't wanna miss, so i looked at the ethereal bubble as it appeared
up there.. and boom - i was distracted/disturbed.
My IM is off, but i still see the envelope, that's another distraction, but
i think we can come to that topic later, or in another thread altogether.

Obviously, what i needed today to achieve undisturbedness i needed to
achieve my goals in focused work was nothing less than a "Notifications Off"
button, or even better:
a Do Not Disturb toggle.

What does Do Not Disturb mean?
1) All notifications are disabled
2) Update Manager doesn't pop up
3) Screensaver doesn't kick in

what am i missing?

After brief discussion in IRC we also established, it might even be an
option to put such a button into the Session Menu.
In any case, what we're aiming at is to have an undisturbed gnome-session
experience.
Eventually, with MPT's help, i became aware that adding more complexity to
any menu would be counterproductive.
Leaves me with concluding that a Do Not Disturb button wants to reside in
the Me Menu.

Where in the Me Menu?
Between "Busy" and "Invisible"?
or outside the Presence controls?
Beneath the conversation indicators we want to merge from the Messaging
Menu?
On the top of the menu?

There are more questions to be asked, but i think these should suffice for a
collaborative brainstorm effort..