Unity System Compositor

[Alarms] Allow snoozing an alarm/silencing a phone call by turning the phone face down.

Bug #1388070 reported by Michael Zanetti
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu UX
Fix Committed
Medium
John Lea
Unity System Compositor
Triaged
Undecided
Unassigned
unity-system-compositor (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

It'd be great to allow snoozing alarms using the "turnover" gesture as described here:

http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/sensorgesture-plugins-topics.html

(Same goes for silenting incoming calls)

To be more precise on how the gesture would work:

In order to avoid false positives, the device needs to be turned from face up to face down. If the device is already face down when the alarm/call starts ringing, it needs first to be turned face up and then again face down.

---- UX comment ----

Great idea, this is a good example of a 'moment of delight' interaction.

Feel free to add this functionality.

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Olga Kemmet (olga-kemmet) wrote :

I think Motorola phones are using that feature, which is quite nice actually. No objectives from my side.

Olga Kemmet (olga-kemmet)
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
assignee: nobody → Giorgio Venturi (giorgio-venturi)
Magdalena Mirowicz (magdalena-mirowicz)
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
assignee: Giorgio Venturi (giorgio-venturi) → Paty Davila (dizzypaty)
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
assignee: Paty Davila (dizzypaty) → James Mulholland (jamesjosephmulholland)
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James Mulholland (jamesmulholland) wrote :

Appears to be a device capability related bug, will flag for relevant design team member.

Magdalena Mirowicz (magdalena-mirowicz)
tags: added: hardware-related
James Mulholland (jamesmulholland)
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
assignee: James Mulholland (jamesjosephmulholland) → Andrea Bernabei (faenil)
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Paty Davila (dizzypaty) wrote :

Proximity sensor is an API that developers are welcome to use (please refer to the Screen blanking policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RBoVknCLZ4GQ8E_iVftd3i_KmdxI5d6JrBt7i5EDZO0/edit?usp=sharing) However, we won't use it for the default behaviour of the Clock app. It's a feature that requires discovery and understanding of usage for the 'standard' user.

description: updated
description: updated
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Michael Zanetti (mzanetti) wrote :

I don't think this has anything to do with the proximity sensor, also not screen blanking...

this bug is about using the gyroscope sensor to snooze an alarm...

Michael Zanetti (mzanetti)
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: Fix Committed → New
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Andrea Bernabei (faenil) wrote :

It doesn't matter which sensor is involved.

Design team decided that this UX is not desired, not for the default Clock app. 3rd party developers are allowed to implement this in their app if desired (even though I think the platform doesn't offer a way to do that, yet, right?)

Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: New → Fix Committed
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Michael Zanetti (mzanetti) wrote :

fwiw, this can't be added by 3rd party apps... needs to be done in unity8 (also not in the clock app)

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Michael Zanetti (mzanetti) wrote :

Reopening this after discussing with design on the Shell sprint

description: updated
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: Fix Committed → New
summary: - [Alarms] Allow snoozing an alarm by turning the phone.
+ [Alarms] Allow snoozing an alarm/silencing a phone call by turning the
+ phone face down.
John Lea (johnlea)
description: updated
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
assignee: Andrea Bernabei (faenil) → John Lea (johnlea)
status: New → Fix Committed
description: updated
Changed in unity-system-compositor:
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity-system-compositor (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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