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 <cian...@di.unipi.it>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. > -- sfm
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