Making notifications close-able

[Remco]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 13:14, Chandru <chandru.in at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Empathy does have an option to disable notifications when away or busy.

Oh, I didn't realize that the option already existed! But that option
does not hide notifications that are already visible.

> 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.

I'm not really sure there is a need for this particular aspect of the
feature. It would also not help in the case someone is continually
posting private messages on your screen.

> Some sort of keyboard shortcut to close currently visible notification
> should help.

Maybe we should introduce shortcuts to change your status, and hide
(current and future) notifications based on that. Those shortcuts
would have a wider use case. You could synthesize your feature by
quickly changing your status to Busy and then back to Available.

-- 
Remco