Public bug reported: Gaming is an important part for the desktop and besides workstations the most important and popular thing you can do with it. This is why Ubuntu should treat them well and I think they can do that with little effort.
Unity 8 should not get in the way while playing a game, you can achieve this in several ways: - Suppress Notifications Problem: Gamer on Windows often complain about unwanted notifications, like system updates or other apps wanting attention. Notifications can be annoying while playing a game and cause a drop in FPS. Solution: So, Unity 8 should not display the at all during a game. Maybe a sound could inform the user instead? - Disable Keys That Throw You To The Desktop Problem: Accidentally hitting the SUPER- or ALT-key could throw you to the desktop Solution: they should be disabled and the user should instead just use ALT + TAB to get to the desktop. Maybe even provide a native steam-like Unity overlay? where you hit a Keyboard combination and can do stuff on your PC while having the game in sight. I'm sure there are things also things that could improve performance, if you have any other ideas feel free to post them below. ** Affects: unity8 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: annoyances games gaming notifications performance unity ** Tags added: gaming ** Tags added: unity ** Tags added: annoyances games performance ** Tags added: notifications -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1617456 Title: [Feature Request] Gaming Mode for Unity To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8/+bug/1617456/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs