[Bug 511903] Re: Notification balloon disappears when hovering over it

2010-01-25 Thread Sebastien Bacher
you can click through the bubbles that's why they go away when you need to use this screen corner, those bubble don't have buttons or anything to interact on, they just do display informations... ** Package changed: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) = notify-osd (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: notify-osd (Ubuntu)

[Bug 511903] Re: Notification balloon disappears when hovering over it

2010-01-24 Thread Saverio Miroddi
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38328622/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: GConfNonDefault.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38328623/GConfNonDefault.txt -- Notification balloon disappears when hovering over it

[Bug 511903] Re: Notification balloon disappears when hovering over it

2010-01-24 Thread papukaija
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However this seems to be the correct behaviour of the notifications. ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- Notification balloon disappears when hovering over it

[Bug 511903] Re: Notification balloon disappears when hovering over it

2010-01-24 Thread WeatherGod
Agreed, this is the correct behavior, however, I am not sure it is the best behavior. I can't quite put my finger on it, but I never quite right about it. Maybe it should fade away, or become translucent? The original reporter's suggestion of having a X to close the notification is very

[Bug 511903] Re: Notification balloon disappears when hovering over it

2010-01-24 Thread Saverio Miroddi
Well, I think that there is no reason to have it disappear when the user hovers over it. My reaction, and I guess it's common behavior, is to hover over it, independently on what action follows - so that if it disappears, the reaction is what the ...?? The X is not the only possible option -

[Bug 511903] Re: Notification balloon disappears when hovering over it

2010-01-24 Thread WeatherGod
Saverio, the reason for having it disappear is because otherwise, it would prevent users from being able to click on window elements below the notification box. For Jaunty Jackalope (9.04), it did not do this, and it would be fairly annoying if you used an application like Pidgin that also used