Ubuntu UX

[notifications] phone notifications should appear modally and block events to the app below

Bug #1285712 reported by Jouni Helminen on 2014-02-27

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Ubuntu UX	Fix Released	High	Daniela Ferrai
unity-notifications (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
unity8 (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Mirco Müller

Bug Description

New request from UX to change the notifications on the phone so that the user needs to react to the notification (dismiss, approve, whatever) to be able to continue to use the app/phone. This would be phone specific, and not affect tablet and desktop. In the future we would like to have both modal and non-modal notifications.

So notifications would appearl in a modal view, with a 50% transparent black background blocking access to the app below (see attached visual)

Can we assess the engineering requirements and have a chat on hangouts?

See original description

Related branches

lp://staging/~macslow/unity8/modal-snap-decisions

Merged into lp://staging/unity8 at revision 874

Albert Astals Cid (community): Approve on 2014-05-05

Michał Sawicz: Approve on 2014-05-05

PS Jenkins bot (community): Needs Fixing (continuous-integration) on 2014-04-30

Jouni Helminen (community): Approve on 2014-04-03

lp://staging/~macslow/unity-notifications/modal-snap-decisions

Merged into lp://staging/unity-notifications at revision 203

Michał Sawicz: Approve on 2014-05-05

PS Jenkins bot (community): Needs Fixing (continuous-integration) on 2014-05-05

Albert Astals Cid (community): Approve on 2014-04-10

Michael Zanetti (community): Needs Information on 2014-03-31

lp://staging/~macslow/unity-api/expose-notification-data-roles-to-qml

Merged into lp://staging/unity-api at revision 126

Michael Zanetti (community): Approve on 2014-03-31

PS Jenkins bot (community): Approve (continuous-integration) on 2014-03-25

lp://staging/ubuntu/utopic-proposed/unity-notifications

lp://staging/ubuntu/utopic-proposed/unity8

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Jouni Helminen (jounihelminen) wrote on 2014-02-27:

test.png Edit (1.4 MiB, image/png)

summary:	- phone notifications should appear modally and block events the app below + phone notifications should appear modally and block events to the app + below
description:	updated
description:	updated

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Michał Sawicz (saviq) wrote on 2014-02-27: Re: phone notifications should appear modally and block events to the app below

This is relatively easy to implement. Should this affect tablet, too? I.e. full-screen darkening? How about the greeter?

Changed in ubuntu-ux:
assignee:	Mirco Müller (macslow) → nobody
Changed in unity8:
assignee:	nobody → Mirco Müller (macslow)
status:	New → Triaged

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John Lea (johnlea) wrote on 2014-02-28:

@saviq; no, this should only affect the phone. Tablet and Unity8 desktop should be unaffected. Also this effect should not be present in the greeter.

Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status:	New → In Progress
assignee:	nobody → Jouni Helminen (jounihelminen)

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote on 2014-02-28:

I assume that such modal notifications would then imply no timeouts?!

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John Lea (johnlea) wrote on 2014-02-28: Re: [Bug 1285712] Re: phone notifications should appear modally and block events to the app below

On 28/02/14 14:43, Mirco Müller wrote:
> I assume that such modal notifications would then imply no timeouts?!
>

No, timeouts remain and are unaffected by this change. This is a
stopgap solution for the 14.04 phone, ultimately we will have a
structure with both modal and mon-modal notifications, but this is a
quick fix until this is ready. Any questions ping me on IRC on Monday.
Thanks!

John Lea (johnlea) on 2014-03-03

Changed in ubuntu-ux:
importance:	Undecided → High
description:	updated

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote on 2014-03-12: Re: phone notifications should appear modally and block events to the app below

Let me sum up what I can take away from this...

* this modal behaviour is meant to apply to snap-decisions only, but not ephemeral or interactive notifications
* timeouts are meant to be left untouched
* a fullscreen black backdrop beneath the notification with 50% opacity consuming all input
* only to apply to the phone

Correct?

How does this affect the visual snap-decison queue (max. 5 snap-decision on screen, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVryb_-gRR0)?

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John Lea (johnlea) wrote on 2014-03-12:

All correct.

In response to your last question, if the semi-transparent black backdrop is visible, all subsequent notifications (SnapDecisions, tappable notifications, NotifyOSD) appear on top of the backdrop, the ordering is unaffected. If all the Snap Decisions timeout or are dismissed, the black backdrop is removed.

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote on 2014-03-12:

Alright, thanks!

Mirco Müller (macslow) on 2014-03-13

Changed in unity8:
status:	Triaged → In Progress
importance:	Undecided → High

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote on 2014-03-13:

Here's the attached branch in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqqmPBa97U0

Michał Sawicz (saviq) on 2014-05-05

Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status:	New → In Progress
Changed in unity-notifications (Ubuntu):
status:	New → In Progress

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2014-05-05:

#10

This bug was fixed in the package unity-notifications - 0.1.1+14.10.20140505-0ubuntu1

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unity-notifications (0.1.1+14.10.20140505-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low

[ Mirco Müller ]
* Make the Roles enum available to QML. (LP: #1285712)
-- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Mon, 05 May 2014 12:25:31 +0000

Changed in unity-notifications (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2014-05-05:

#11

This bug was fixed in the package unity8 - 7.86+14.10.20140505-0ubuntu1

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unity8 (7.86+14.10.20140505-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low

  [ Ted Gould ]
  * Provide a dbus interface for setting the count and countVisible
    properties. (LP: #1301400)

  [ Michał Sawicz ]
  * Pass env variables to initctl start.
  * Suffix .sh to our scripts and clean up debian/rules.
  * Adapt to Debian Qt package renames and drop unneeded Dee plugin
    dependency.

[ Ying-Chun Liu ]
* Add Zoomable Image for Preview widgets.

[ Albert Astals ]
* Remove support for Qt <= 5.2.1

  [ Mirco Müller ]
  * Implemented feature-request from Design for modal snap-decision
    notifications on the phone. See LP #1285712 (LP: #1285712)

[ Andrea Cimitan ]
* Make progressbas in preview widget big as the button

[ CI bot ]
* Resync trunk
-- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Mon, 05 May 2014 12:09:43 +0000

Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

Michał Sawicz (saviq) on 2014-05-05

Changed in unity8:
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

Olga Kemmet (olga-kemmet) on 2014-07-15

summary:	- phone notifications should appear modally and block events to the app - below + [notifications] phone notifications should appear modally and block + events to the app below
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
assignee:	Jouni Helminen (jounihelminen) → Daniela Ferrai (dferrai)