[arch-general] Gnome3: gnome-shell and notifications, broken?
I've just changed my desktop back to Gnome3. I suspect that notifications are somewhat broken on my system, but I can't find any information to confirm it. When I run 'notify-send "Test notifications"' the following happens: 1. a small 'i' in a blue circle appears at the bottom of the screen - it disappears when I click on it, or after a short while 2. an 'i' in a blue circle also appears in the bottom bar - left clicking on the icon brings up a smaller 'i' icon, the larger icon remains - right clicking the icon brings up a menu offering 'open' and 'remove', they both behave exactly the same: they remove the notification icon What I find surprising here is that 1. I never get to see the text, no matter what I do 2. 'open' doesn't open but removes Is this weird behaviour unique to my system, or is it just an area in serious need of improvement in Gnome3? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote:
I've just changed my desktop back to Gnome3. I suspect that notifications are somewhat broken on my system, but I can't find any information to confirm it.
When I run 'notify-send "Test notifications"' the following happens:
1. a small 'i' in a blue circle appears at the bottom of the screen - it disappears when I click on it, or after a short while
2. an 'i' in a blue circle also appears in the bottom bar - left clicking on the icon brings up a smaller 'i' icon, the larger icon remains - right clicking the icon brings up a menu offering 'open' and 'remove', they both behave exactly the same: they remove the notification icon
What I find surprising here is that
1. I never get to see the text, no matter what I do 2. 'open' doesn't open but removes
Is this weird behaviour unique to my system, or is it just an area in serious need of improvement in Gnome3?
notify is working just fine over here with latest updates applied (non testing) as of 1/6/2013. C
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote:
What I find surprising here is that
1. I never get to see the text, no matter what I do 2. 'open' doesn't open but removes
Is this weird behaviour unique to my system, or is it just an area in serious need of improvement in Gnome3?
1. Weirdness on your system. This is how it's supposed to look like: http://ompldr.org/vZ3owYw 2. "Open" is meant to close the notification and callback to the application that sent the notification (e.g. to open a window). Since notify-send doesn't support callbacks, it just closes the notification.
On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 11:59:10PM +0100, Jan Steffens wrote:
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote:
What I find surprising here is that
1. I never get to see the text, no matter what I do 2. 'open' doesn't open but removes
Is this weird behaviour unique to my system, or is it just an area in serious need of improvement in Gnome3?
1. Weirdness on your system. This is how it's supposed to look like: http://ompldr.org/vZ3owYw
That does indeed look *very* different from my system. I had a hunch and switched to another gnome-shell theme this morning and tested again--now it looks better. So it seems the 'alternative' theme[1], which I've been using because it has a slimmer top panel, is broken. How irritating! You don't happen to know a good theme (that doesn't break notifications) with a slim top panel? ;)
2. "Open" is meant to close the notification and callback to the application that sent the notification (e.g. to open a window). Since notify-send doesn't support callbacks, it just closes the notification.
A, thanks for that explanation, it wasn't obvious to me what 'open' was supposed to do. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. -- Alan Kay
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