Making notifications close-able

[Remco]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 07:44, Chandru <chandru.in at 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.

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Remco