Notifications

Notification settings.

Objectives

Allow people to:

• Stop notifications from annoying apps
• See important notification, even when playing games or watching videos
• Focus, either temporarily (example: during meetings), for longer periods of time (example: "I need to focus on writing this report"), or at certain times of the day ("I don't want to be bothered when I'm relaxing in the evening")
  • Filter out some notifications but not others, while they're focused (example: "I still need to get calendar notifications, so I know when I have calls coming up")

Other functionality to provide:

• Control whether the screen should waking up and show fullscreen notifications, when it is locked (it might not be desirable in some environments, like a desktop machine in a shared space)
• Control whether notification summaries are shown on the lock screen

Potential functionality which has been excluded for now:

• Controls for notification sounds
• Hide the content of notifications

Relevant Art

iOS

Windows 10

Mac

elementary

Discussion

Scheduled "do not disturb" functionality could do more than disable notifications - for example, it could prevent certain apps or websites from being accessed.

Relevant issues:

• List is missing applications, it has unwanted items too

• Allow applications to override "Do Not Disturb"

Tentative Design

Original wireframes

See Also

• http://gigaom.com/apple/ios-5-notifications-and-notification-center/