Re: How does gnome-shell handle urgent windows?

2011-04-24 Thread Allan E. Registos
On Wednesday, 20 April, 2011 05:40 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: Today I was explaining the concept of Gnome-shell to a windows user, > and he asked me how it lets you know that a window is trying to > attract your attention because something happened with it. There is something that needs to

Re: How does gnome-shell handle urgent windows?

2011-04-20 Thread Maciej Marcin Piechotka
On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 11:06 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > > > It should pop up the message tray automatically when you "come > back"... > It does but it is hardly noticeable. I started to see this only because I was told that it exists recently on this m-l. Regards signature.asc Descript

Re: How does gnome-shell handle urgent windows?

2011-04-20 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
It should pop up the message tray automatically when you "come back"... On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:03 AM, G. Michael Carter wrote: > The one annoying thing about the notifications is what happens when your > not at your desk.Is it possible to get the gnome-shell to "re-show" any > alerts not

Re: How does gnome-shell handle urgent windows?

2011-04-20 Thread G. Michael Carter
The one annoying thing about the notifications is what happens when your not at your desk.Is it possible to get the gnome-shell to "re-show" any alerts not acknowledged, like a reminder? Or how about doing something like docky. When docky is hidden if there's something waiting there's a red

Re: How does gnome-shell handle urgent windows?

2011-04-20 Thread David Prieto
Hi Milan, AFAIK, in GNOME2 when the window asked for user attention, the panel > made it blink until clicked. No idea what Windows does in that regard. > It works exactly the same way. It's basically the same as Gnome2's panel. > In the Shell, the notification is shown only once for a few secon

Re: How does gnome-shell handle urgent windows?

2011-04-20 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 20 avril 2011 à 11:58 +0200, David Prieto a écrit : > Hi Milan, thanks for your reply. > > One of the things this person likes about this kind of notifications > on Windows is that they're visible all the time, even if you weren't > looking at the screen when the notification appeared,

Re: How does gnome-shell handle urgent windows?

2011-04-20 Thread David Prieto
Hi Milan, thanks for your reply. One of the things this person likes about this kind of notifications on Windows is that they're visible all the time, even if you weren't looking at the screen when the notification appeared, even without any user interaction (as opposed to moving the cursor to a s

Re: How does gnome-shell handle urgent windows?

2011-04-20 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 20 avril 2011 à 11:21 +0200, David Prieto a écrit : > Hi all, > > > Today I was explaining the concept of Gnome-shell to a windows user, > and he asked me how it lets you know that a window is trying to > attract your attention because something happened with it. To which I > realised

How does gnome-shell handle urgent windows?

2011-04-20 Thread David Prieto
Hi all, Today I was explaining the concept of Gnome-shell to a windows user, and he asked me how it lets you know that a window is trying to attract your attention because something happened with it. To which I realised I didn't really know what to answer. Gnome 2 used to "light up" that window o