I quite enjoy notifications in fullscreen apps, such as when browsing FF in fullscreen, or watching movies. Instead of trying to guess what users want, which is going to be different not only per-user but per- situation, could we use a system status / presence to let them tell us? It would be great if, when I have myself listed as Available, that I get these notifications, but if I am Busy/Away, then I don't want them.
If I am watching a movie or television by myself, I almost always want to know if someone else IMs me or if a file I was waiting for is complete (maybe I was just watching something to wait for one of these actions in the first place), but if I have a group of people over and we are watching something together, I don't want notifications, so I can simply appropriately set my Presence to Busy and then I won't receive these. Personally I would find not receiving notifications in fullscreen apps a big regression in the normal case. And I think better integration with the system presence is a good thing and an elegant solution to some issues such as this one. It would however potentially mean that you shouldn't need to be using a chat application to use a few of the statuses; perhaps Available / Busy / Away would always be there as they make plenty of sense outside of IM applications. What do other people think? -- NotifyOSD notifications shouldn't appear when using fullscreen applications https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/372789 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
