Comment 26 for bug 372789

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 address hidden> 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
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