On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Adam Williamson <awill...@redhat.com>wrote:
> 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 I agree that non-transient notifications have some very important use cases that Gnome Shell should accommodate for. I don't know the details of the current notification system, but one approach is to have different notification levels, allowing for applications to have configurable policies and for Gnome Shell to implement a UI solution that handles each in a consistent way. Gnome Shell should be as distraction free as possible (and desirable for a given user), but no more. Jesse
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