Notifications: uselessness of

[( ``-_-´´ ) -- BUGabundo]

Olá Matthew e a todos.

On Thursday 26 February 2009 18:34:33 Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote on 26/02/09 01:39:
> >...
> > May I suggest here something?
> > Setting /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/toggle_fullscreen to a nice
> > key shortcut, I use many app in fullscreen mode. I would love for
> > indicator/notifications to NOT go above fullscreen apps (video
> > playback anyone?). This at least would allow you to work with any
> > kind of visual interruption, dont you agree?
> >...
> 
> We considered treating full-screen applications specially, but realized
> that wouldn't really make sense. If you're using Ubuntu on a netbook,
> for example, you're quite likely to make the current application
> full-screen whenever you can -- but that doesn't have anything to do
> with which notification bubbles you want to see.
> 
> Your example of video playback is covered by what we have designed,
> though: if you're doing something that inhibits the screensaver, that's
> a good sign that you don't want to be disturbed by non-critical
> notification bubbles either. (In future, gnome-session will have a flag
> for this that isn't so tightly associated with the screensaver.)

There's the "Power Manager Inhibit Applet 2.24.2".
Maybe that can be patch to allow the same?


> > Since I'm at it. cant the IM queue be lowered to 100? 1000 is way too
> > big. Some time pidgin/gwibber crashes and 15 mins latter I'm still
> > getting notifications. Anything older then 1 min, should just be sent
> > to /dev/null
> 
> That should improve a lot once messages from the same person start being
> concatenated into the same bubble.

Is there a bug for that?

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