pausing notifications

[thigg]

Notifications are hiding ui elements sometimes. To fix this, a user should be able to pause notifications until the user is done with interacting.

• SFOS forum link
• SFOS meeting discussion

Proposal:
When a notification is swiped away, notifications are paused for some time. If a notification is swiped away immediatley after the pause, the pause time is increased.

To implement this:

• the notification ui element needs to inform lipstick (via dbus) if a notification was swiped away.
  the dbus signal should include the notification that was swiped away.
• lipstick needs to listen to this dbus signal and set the time when the pause will end
  • all notifications currently in the queue to be displayed should be set to paused
  • all new notifications that are triggered during the pause time should be set to paused
  • when the pause is over, all paused notifications should be brought back to the display queue

Things for consideration:

• pause times: (10s,30s, 1min)
• different functionality per swipe direction ( pause, do not pause, display notification somewhere else, clear notification queue from this app?), maybe even allow left and down and right and down swipes for more options? (doubt that is used in practice...)
• visual hints that notifications are paused/unpaused?
• only pause notifications from the same app that was swiped away
• maybe allows for finetuning in the settings.
• disable interaction on notifications (taps, swipes) for the first 500ms after a notification is displayed, to prevent unintentional interaction

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Todo: collect more scenarios.

Scenario 1: Fdroid:

• refresh packages in fdroid, each package triggers a notification
• try to install a package.
• the notification hides the install button