jenius-apps/ambie

If Do Not Disturb is on, warn user on focus page

dpaulino opened this issue · 3 comments

dpaulino commented

Current problem:

  • Users with Do Not Disturb on will not see any of ambie's focus notifications.
  • Ideally, users would grant an exception for Ambie's notifications
  • To mitigate, we should add a message somewhere on the focus page recommending that users add an exception

Note: investigation has shown there is no way for a UWP app to detect if Do Not Disturb is on. So this issue might never be resolved.

AnalogFeelings commented

working on it

dpaulino commented

@AnalogFeelings first off, I want to thank you for the contribution you've made with ambie for this issue and for others! You've been a great help. Unfortunately for this particular issue, I realize there was a problem in the requirements I listed. What I should have said was "If Do Not Disturb is on, warn user on focus page".

The work you did correctly addresses the scenario for focus mode, but I made the mistake in the original issue. Making things worse, as you investigated, there is no way for a UWP app to determine if Do Not Disturb is on. So this issue might have reached a dead end.

Next steps:

  • I will edit the title of this ticket to correct my mistake
  • While your PR correctly addressed the focus mode issue, that was based on my incorrect info. So would you be able to close your pr for now?
  • I will leave this issue open in case we discover a way to detect Do Not Disturb from a uwp app

Let me know what you think

AnalogFeelings commented

Sure, hopefully Microsoft makes the DND API public soon or makes requesting a key a possibility.

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