Notification

Revision 5 as of 2014-07-30 16:09:11

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This is a work-in-progress specification for how system-controlled notification mechanisms should work on Ubuntu.

Phone

(bug 1314683)

Access

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The System Settings main screen should have a “Notifications” item.

Simple implementation

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The “Notifications” screen should list all installed apps, regardless of whether they have ever tried to issue a notification. (This is different from the other permission screens, which list only apps that have tried to use that permission, because it is not reasonable for the OS to issue an alert asking whether an app may notify you of something.) Notifications should be opt-out: every app in this list should have notifications on by default.

Apps should be able to use icon badges (emblems) regardless of its setting for other notifications.

Later implementation

TBD