On 19 Apr 2018, at 16:14, Matthew Wild <[email protected]> wrote: > > As raised by Georg in another thread, I'm curious how clients are > handling the 'do not disturb' status today. > > There are two approaches: > > 1) DND means "please don't send me a message unless it is important, > as it will disturb me" > > 2) DND means "my client may not notify me about your message, as I > have asked it not to disturb me" > > I suspect most clients today implement (1). However this makes it > difficult to implement a sane way to send someone an unimportant > message. Other systems allow you to message people who are DND/busy > without notifying them (although they may allow the user to manually > override this and cause a notification on the receiving side). > > I feel like we could achieve the same behaviour if clients set to DND > disabled notifications by default, except (optionally) if some > explicit trigger (such as https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0224.html ) > is used by the sender.
I haven’t always thought this, but these days I think that (2) is more useful than (1). I’m not sure that purely a DND status is enough to achieve this, though, as it ties in to push notifications and the like too. /K _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
