This is a bug with the legacy XEmbed notification icons. I believe Dan Winship was working on something to fix this.
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Onyeibo Oku <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/24/2011 03:30 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> >> Is this a bug, or a feature? >> >> With some notifications, if you click on the icon it'll launch the >> related app, and if you click on the text of the notification (e.g. >> 'abrt applet') it'll pop up a full notification. This is pretty good. >> With others, you have to click on the icon to get anything to happen; >> clicking on the text does nothing. >> >> For me, this is the case with Xchat and Fedora's update applet: with >> both of them, if I click on the text, nothing at all happens. If I click >> on the icon, the appropriate action happens (xchat comes to the >> foreground, or the update app launches). >> >> The xchat one in particular is really annoying, because it means the >> notification acts as if it's running away - i move my mouse over the >> icon and it moves away to display the name of the app, clicking on which >> does nothing at all! I have to carefully position my pointer over the >> icon to make it move away, then carefully move my pointer again to the >> new location of the icon to actually click on it and get xchat to >> activate... >> >> I think when there's no more detailed notification pop-up to be >> displayed when you click the text, clicking the text should simply do >> the same as clicking the icon. >> >> (of course I never do this because it's so finicky, I just alt-tab to >> it. but still. actually, i think the movement behaviour is a bit buggy >> depending on exactly how you move the pointer within the notification >> area.) > > > A HUGE +1 ... same here > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
