1211721 - Set the duration of a notification display to a reasonable amount for interaction when requireInteraction=false

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1201397

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Notifications and Alerts, defect)

Description

[Edwin Wong [:edwong]]

This is for Windows and Linux and Mac Notification center control's it's display time.  Currently, display time is 3-4 sec. Shall we entertain a time of 10s - 3600s?  If you walk away from you laptop, you still may want to interact with it.

Comment 1

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

(In reply to Edwin Wong [:edwong] from comment #0)
> This is for Windows and Linux and Mac Notification center control's it's
> display time.  Currently, display time is 3-4 sec. Shall we entertain a time
> of 10s - 3600s?

I think we would probably only change this for XUL notifications where we have chosen our own arbitrary number. When talking with a11y folks in Toronto last week, they suggested 6 - 12 seconds but as a separate bug it needs to not auto-hide if keyboard focus is moving inside of it (like we do for mouse hover).

> If you walk away from you laptop, you still may want to interact with it.

We should just be smarter about that case in a separate bug. I don't think we should pick the default value to try and solve that problem too.

Comment 2

[Edwin Wong [:edwong]]

* maybe we can create a pref for the display duration so that we can change it in a dot release.  

* It's important to understand the use cases here. If I'm working and I see a notification, I want to be able to read it but I also want it to go away so I'm not interrupted.  I really want both time to read and go away.

* bmaggs to propose duration.

Comment 3

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

We decided to go with 12 seconds as the duration. This change is being made in bug 1201397.