hello, i love gnome shell and i started to like empathy... to some extent, but actually the combination of gnome shell, message tray and notifications is very, very frustrating.
i agree that there should be idea of user being "available" and "busy" for notifications. and probably no one there in the world have a problem with "busy" state of user - no damn notifications. great! but, imho, gnome designers misunderstood the "available" state. you know... when we are using a computer, we might be available but we still do something - write e-mail, documentation or software, work on images, watch movies... you name it. this is probably the reason the distracting message icon had to go, right? so why we got message tray? so far it seems - to be simply annoying like hell (much more than the ditched icon) - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649028 - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647627 - giving us privacy issues - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648376 - not delivering notifications to us (we miss them) - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641723 - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649328 i understand that it is hard to find appropriate balance for notifications. i just do not understand why we get simply unusable (missing notifications!) and very annoying and distracting message tray? imho, it seems like gnome designers and developers are looking for some holy grail based on AI, i.e. bug report 643014 (hm... well, that seems to be unconfirmed, but still... it is not invalid). in the meantime, would it be possible to get something simple and _really_ not distracting? for example, list of notifications only in activities mode (and no empathy/IM messages in desktop mode). imho, that would be a good starting point to whatever future (maybe too simple, but that's would be better than unusuable current state :/). finally, if there is fix on the way, do we have to wait till november? i am really happy to test any patches i can find in bugzilla for current release. i understand that some might find above e-mail too harsh... but please consider frustrated like hell users[1], who find their and others bug reports unconfirmed for weeks if not months. best regards, w [1] yes, even while writing this e-mail i was annoyed by the message tray and yes while making a break from writing this e-mail i have missed messages from other people who went off-line before i _managed_ to be notified... thank you empathy and gnome shell :/ :P p.s. does this bug report solve some of the above problems? https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643594 w _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
