On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Gabriele Svelto <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/01/2014 21:12, an wrote: >> As I was told before here there is no visual notification while the phone is >> sleeping like Android has, the blinking led and I think that's a useful >> feature, you don't need to power the phone to see what you've been missing. > > Is that really a good approach? On Android phones most users end up > installing enough apps that receive notifications (Facebook, Skype, > Whatsapp, etc...) that in the end the notification LED is basically > constantly blinking at which point they either ignore it or assume that > it's supposed to blink all the time.
I think it is. The LED on or blinking when you have a notification behavior has been around since way before smartphones (think all the way back to pagers), and I think it's still super useful. Maybe many users have it effectively constantly on due to app spam, but that's not a reason to not include the behavior. There are many users who control their app spam and use the behavior. > > Now if one could limit it only to a subset of apps that would be more > interesting (for example, I would only care about missed calls and SMSes). That's a really great idea, even if most apps let the user turn notifications off in the app's own settings. Also, doesn't this get into a larger discussion about denying individual permissions for apps in general (i.e. just go and de-select the "can send notifications" permission for that app)? > > Gabriele > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g > _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
