On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Koppányi Tamás <[email protected]> wrote:

> i am also really hoping that developers wouldfix this. also it would be
> great if there was better integration for empathy. right now the
> notification bar icon of empathy is barely cliackable (only the icon, not
> the text)


This is a GTK+ bug which has been fixed. Additionally, we're trying to have
the Shell be more of a native client for Telepathy rather than a set of
hacks that were incorrect according to spec (observers technically shouldn't
send messages, etc.), but worked anyway.


> and while the chat windows stay on the notification bar, but they have no
> sign that there might be new messages.
>

Making the Shell play nicer with Telepathy can help everybody... we can ACK
messages too! Additionally, I think we're going to try to implement the
little starburst counter for Telepathy messages:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell-design/plain/mockups/static/notifications-summary.png

I may see if I can get a starburst counter working tonight, after I'm done
finishing up some other patches.


> last time i complained about this i got a reply that after being away from
> the computer for some time, the notification bar comes up to show you if
> there was something happening. while this is good, but since empathy windows
> look all the same if there was something happening or if not, i have to look
> through each icon manually (click them one by one, since mouseover also
> doesn't show anything). now this is even a bigger distraction, since because
> i'm affraid i'll miss some essages, i keep checking the messaging windows
> constantly, instead of focusing on my work.
> what i'd suggest, if you want to keep the notification bar, is that there
> could be an icon in the hot corner (and preferably move that hot corner to
> the botom left corner, so that it wouldn't interfere with the scrollbars of
> maximized windows), something like the plasmoid hot corner of kde (
> http://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/a/a0/Kde_plasma.jpg), only smaller. it
> could have some blinking icon, or some exclamation mark, or whatever. there
> could be some nice animation that the pop-up messages on the bottom slide
> towards the hot corner, and merge with this icon.
> but on top of this, there should be some indication for the icons of the
> notification bar that there is something happening, a halo, a dot, or
> something.
>
>
> On 4 May 2011 00:39, Micah Carrick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I actually love the idea of unobtrusive notifications, however, if I miss
>> get instant message from my boss that says our website is down, I need to
>> make sure I don't miss that message. I was hoping there was a setting to
>> allow messages from certain contexts (empathy) to remain visible until
>> dismissed.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Michal Orlik <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>  It would be really nice if there will be some global notification in top
>>> panel (something like ubuntu's indicators). Sometimes I didn't see if
>>> someone wrote me and it's crucial sometime. Would be here some good soul to
>>> make some extension for this?
>>>
>>> Micah Carrick píše v Út 03. 05. 2011 v 14:56 -0700:
>>>
>>>  Not sure if this is gnome-shell or gnome3, but, I was wondering how I
>>> can enable some sort of notification (eg blinking icon, red exlamation
>>> mark... something) letting me know there are messages. I know one of the
>>> design goals is reduce distractions, but, in my line of work these
>>> distractions are critical. We communicate via IM and I'm not always looking
>>> at the screen to catch the very quick notification at the bottom of the
>>> screen.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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