Yes very true , we could like set an option to particular notifications as critical , so those would come up even if we were on fullscreen
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Michael Rooney <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 direct subscriber > of a duplicate bug. > -- 'I am what I am because of who we all are' http://www.h3manth.com -- Hemanth HM Sent from Bengaluru, Karnataka, India -- 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
