Sorry for vague terminology here, I'm not an expert. :) so, in GNOME 2, an app can set some kind of hint that it wants to notify you about something, which causes its entry in the window list to start pulsing. the classic use of this (for me at least) is to know when someone's pinged me on IRC: I see xchat's window list entry start pulsing, I go and see what some idiot wants. :)
in GNOME 3, it seems like this hint is pretty much thrown away. the work around i've been using is to enable xchat's notification plugin, which makes it send a notification when i'm pinged. With the old GNOME Shell, where this notification popped up at top-right next to my name and was always visible, this was almost as noticeable as the pulsing window list entry. With the new GNOME Shell, where the notification just pops up at bottom right for a few seconds then disappears unless I go and manually check that bottom-right area again, it's a lot less noticeable. now, I was thinking: Nokia actually came up with a really great notification system on the N900. when there's some kind of alert, the 'windows' button at top left goes yellow and pulses a bit. this doesn't get in the way of anything but is always visible and quite noticeable. can't we do something similar with GNOME Shell, for whatever window hint xchat uses? Have it make the Activities button (or whatever you call that thing at top left that says Activities...) change appearance somehow, and then in the overview screen, change the appearance of the thumbnail for the window which set the hint? Give it a yellow background or make it pulse or whatever? This seems to me a subtly different case from notifications, which is why GNOME 2 handled it differently: xchat can't really tell me *what* it's notifying me about in a way that works with the notifications system, it's really just a 'you should probably look at this window now' hint. It seems to me that it'd be a benefit to implement this into GNOME 3 alongside actual notifications, just as it was in GNOME 2, but fitting the GNOME 3 interface. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
