Holistic UI is smarter UX

“Since we know that notifications are queued, no notification is
guaranteed to be displayed instantly, so a smarter notification
experience would stay out of the way while you were using indicator
menus, or get out of the way when you invoke them. The design story
of focusayatana, where we balance the need for focus with the need
for awareness, would suggest that we should suppress
awareness-oriented things in favour of focus things.

So when you?re interacting with an indicator menu, we shouldn?t
pop up the notification. Since the notification system, and the
indicator menu system, are separate parts, the UNIX philosophy
sells us short in designing a smart, smooth experience because it
says they should each do their thing individually.

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