On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 07:40 +0200, Koppányi Tamás 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), and while the chat windows stay on the notification > bar, but they have no sign that there might be new messages. 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.
Right - we've been through this before, but this is a good way of looking at it. Like the others, I find that the current notification system does not work well for synchronous chat systems (IRC in my case) that are really important: obviously a lot of Fedora work goes through IRC so when someone pings me on IRC it really matters, but it's easy to miss a transient notification. I've developed a workflow workaround - every few minutes I either manually open the notification tray and look for the xchat bubble, or alt-tab to the xchat window - but as Koppanyi neatly points out, our having to do this is completely destroying the concept behind the transient notifications, and we're actually _more_ distracted than we were before. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list