Comment 16 for bug 428509

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 08:44 +0000, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> mac_v - the same could be said of your constant repetition of the fact
> that you missed an IM during a movie. When you quit the movie, the MI
> told you it was there.

Yes , MI will show *only* when we quit the movie. that is what I'm
trying to say.

By then the message is too late , it is no longer an *Instant* message.

As I'v said already , the contacts might not even be online by the time
the movie is over... [and this has happened to me several times until i
realized where the bug was]

> It's not that big a problem, please stop overplaying the scenario.

Kindly do not minuscule another's personal experience.

I'v not said that a personal IM during a presentation is not embracing
or is an overplayed scenario. Every experience is important to the user
affected.

If you could take a few minutes and read back on the Ayatana mailing
list , several other scenarios were also sighted:
of them a quite common one > User's using firefox in fullscreen mode
especially in netbooks.

But , I do believe that the odds for the presentation scenario happening
are not greater... [already mentioned this in the above comments ]

> We may get a DND mode in the next round, we
> don't have one now. Please accept that and engage constructively on
> other matters.
>
I'v accepted this ... and I'm not insisting on a DND asap.

But did suggest an alternative , [I thought I was being constructive ,
maybe not ], that there be allowed a gconf for turning off this
feature.

Let the bubbles be suppressed by default but allow the user to revert
this via a gconf.
Which *might* not be as tough as implementing a DND... This could be a
temporary band-aid for users , till we have a DND mode.