Re: Is distractionless shell too distractionless? [Notification from telepathy & evolution]

[Cosimo Cecchi <cosimoc gnome org>]

On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 14:59 +0200, Maciej Marcin Piechotka wrote:

> Additionally there is no way of closing some of notifications (for
> example empathy notification which shows/hides empathy window).

Note that this is an Empathy bug [1].

> I understand that it is challenge to find right balance but could
> message be more verbose. For example:
> 
>  - After unlocking screen the 'lost' notifications appears

Hmm, it seems the shell already tries to be clever here and pops up the
bottom bar (with the possibly missed notifications) for ~5 seconds when
unlocking the screen.  Maybe it's not enough?

>  - Allow to mark message as 'remind me later' (remind me in 5 minutes/at
> home[2] etc.) - message will appear when I'm not busy[1]/I have free
> time etc.

This sounds like an interesting idea, but does it really scale well if
you receive a few notifications in a short time?
Setting the status as Busy from the user menu works better in this case
IMO (and notifications are replayed when you set yourself as available
again). Maybe making that setting location-aware could be another
approach solve this?

>  - Allow to just close the notification instead of relying on
> in-notification buttons

You can remove the notification right clicking on it.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631944

Cosimo