I have commented. Mind you, I'm not sure that the service-discovery- applet is at fault. We can discuss on Bug 348377 what else it could do, but this never bothered me prior to the new notify-osd, which sticks its face where the controls are for maximized windows, tabs on tabbed windows, etc. The upper right of the screen has hardly an unobtrusive portion of the screen. If anything, I could argue that it was selected for maximum visibility, not maximum unobtrusiveness.
For what it is worth, we're over two hours on, and I'm almost prepared to remove the service-discovery-applet from my panel -- it is that annoying. And the service-discovery-applet is not the only potential source of high(er) volume notifications. Same with Pidgin, as people appear and disappear, and send messages. -- support X and Y hints for notifications https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/333517 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Notify OSD Developers, which is subscribed to Notify OSD. Status in Notify OSD: New Bug description: Many applications use the X and Y hints to explicitly place their notifications. This is typically accessed in libnotify via notify_notification_attach_to_widget. Very popular to link a notification to a status bar applet. In fact, this functionality is even showcased in the concept video! <http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/253> It would be sensible to support this hint in notify-osd. To go with the "relaxed" design philosophy, the notification itself should not be placed according to the hint, but when it fades out (and perhaps when it fades in) it should indicate the widget it is attached to. This way the user will know, if he wishes to act on the notification, exactly which button to press. I suspect that this would work better than the existing "place the notification at the hinted location no matter what" behaviour of the original notification-daemon, since here developers can set location hints knowing that they aren't being obtrusive. Thus, no need for more buttons; just point the user to where they already exist. So, err, please support this hint! _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
