Making notifications close-able

[Mohammed Bassit]

> 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.

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 <webceo123 at gmail.com>