[Bug 742475] Re: Firefox 4 does not use Ubuntu Notifications
I also desire to see this integration. The default XUL notification does not fit in with Ubuntu's general polish. Perhaps this doesn't fit in with the Natty (now Oneiric) timeline, but it seems like @chrisccoulson has noted that something does need to happen. Can we rework this bug to fit what needs to happen, or is there another bug already describing it? Thunderbird, I understand, has received some love in this regard, but Firefox needs a little bit of help too. I would agree that a non-interactive notification without a way to get to the file downloaded is generally useless in some general-user contexts (though not in others, such as @danillo's use, or mine for that matter). Still, messaging menu integration—I assume this would be the proper place to put the other half of what is needed—cannot be that hard, can it? Someone made Thunderbird do it. In addition, the issue here is not third-party plugins, but functionality. OP didn't ask specifically for xul-ext-notify, but for integration with Ubuntu's mechanisms for displaying notifications to the user. This could very easily, I think (in my ignorance of how it all works), be simply put into Ubuntu's xul-ext-ubufox plugin, or added as another if desired. Again, I understand that similar work has been done on Thunderbird. I'm changing the status from Invalid to Confirmed, since this is a) past Natty, as mentioned by @chrisccoulson; and b) more or less confirmed, as I understand Launchpad bug tracking, by both @danillo and now I. Apologies in advance if this is not the right thing to do. ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = Confirmed ** Summary changed: - Firefox 4 does not use Ubuntu Notifications + Firefox does not use Ubuntu Notifications -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/742475 Title: Firefox does not use Ubuntu Notifications To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/742475/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 742475] Re: Firefox 4 does not use Ubuntu Notifications
I think that this could be reconsidered. Ok, xul-ext-notify is a third party extension, but it brought a small but very interesting way to further integrate Firefox with Ubuntu. Since this project looks abandoned, wouldn't it be important for the Ubuntu team to try to bring this functionality back by some other way, without depending on a third party? And I have to disagree that a non-interactive notification is useless. This is merely an opinion. I usually have several simultaneous downloads and I don't look at their files until much later, so I never click at the download finished native notification. This interactivity is useless for me. A simple notify-OSD would be much more pleasant and less distracting for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/742475 Title: Firefox 4 does not use Ubuntu Notifications To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/742475/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 742475] Re: Firefox 4 does not use Ubuntu Notifications
We don't support third party extensions, so you need to talk to the developers of xul-ext-notify if you want it to work in Firefox 4. In any case, Firefox already supports libnotify notifications, but it falls back to its own XUL notifications on Ubuntu because notify-osd doesn't support actions. Overriding this would provide an even more sub-optimal experience (download finished notifications with no obvious way to access those downloads are completely useless), so it's totally the wrong thing to do. What should happen is that download progress should be integrated with the launcher in Unity, but that's not for the natty timeframe. ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/742475 Title: Firefox 4 does not use Ubuntu Notifications -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
