Empathy does have an option to disable notifications when away or busy. I'm wondering about those cases where you do need new message notifications but would like to close some of them immediately to hide them from the eyes of someone near you.
Some sort of keyboard shortcut to close currently visible notification should help. -- Chandra Sekar.S On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Mohammed Bassit <webceo...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 07:44, Chandru <chandru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I understand that notifications are not manually close-able to avoid > making > > > the user take a conscious decision about notifications. However, there > are > > > certain cases where user might want to immediately close the > notification > > > without waiting for it to time-out (certain chat messages, for > example). > > > > Indeed, I can imagine a case of private messages popping up when > > you're doing a presentation. It should be possible to quickly get rid > > of them in such a case. > > > > > To handle these cases, can't we allow manual closing of the > notifications > > > (say by clicking it) while still retaining the time-out based closing > to > > > ensure that the user can still ignore it without any difference? > > > > > > > This doesn't work, because part of the design is that you must be able > > to click behind the notification. A better solution would be to > > instantly remove the notification if you closed the chat window or the > > application, or changed your status to busy/invisible/offline. > > I know that pidgin has a way to disable notifications when your status > is not set to available. And it integrates very well with notify-osd. > Maybe something like that in empathy as well would solve your problem. > > > -- > Mohammed Bassit <webceo...@gmail.com> > >
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