Hello,
In GNOME, when you have "unread" desktop notifications come from a specific source (e.g., empathy, mail-notification), all new notifications from that source do not pop-up. Instead, they are stacked up in the "unread notifications" place (which appears as the envelope-like icon the systray area).
I don't like this. I just want every notification to pop-up (even if there are already ones, coming from the same source, to be read) and eventually to go in the "unread notifications" place.
Is there a way to get this?
Note, I don't use GNOME Shell. I use OpenBox as Window Manager together with GNOME apps (gnome-settings-daemon, notification-daemon,...)
Thank you very much!
Best,
-- Marco
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:53 AM, sguazt marco.guazzone@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
In GNOME, when you have "unread" desktop notifications come from a specific source (e.g., empathy, mail-notification), all new notifications from that source do not pop-up. Instead, they are stacked up in the "unread notifications" place (which appears as the envelope-like icon the systray area).
I don't like this. I just want every notification to pop-up (even if there are already ones, coming from the same source, to be read) and eventually to go in the "unread notifications" place.
Is there a way to get this?
Note, I don't use GNOME Shell. I use OpenBox as Window Manager together with GNOME apps (gnome-settings-daemon, notification-daemon,...)
Thank you very much!
I'm still looking for a solution.
Any idea?
Thank you so much
Best,
-- Marco
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:53:11AM +0200, sguazt wrote:
In GNOME, when you have "unread" desktop notifications come from a specific source (e.g., empathy, mail-notification), all new notifications from that source do not pop-up. Instead, they are stacked up in the "unread notifications" place (which appears as the envelope-like icon the systray area).
I don't get this "unread notifications" place. In GNOME 3, they popup almost always. In latest versions the popup is sometimes shown with a delay, but IIRC that's decided by gnome-shell.
Suggest just filing a bug so some developer looks at it. Ideally whatever handles the "unread notifications" place.
FWIW, most GNOME apps just use (IIRC) persistent notifications; that's in the specification.
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Olav Vitters olav@vitters.nl wrote:
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:53:11AM +0200, sguazt wrote:
In GNOME, when you have "unread" desktop notifications come from a specific source (e.g., empathy, mail-notification), all new notifications from that source do not pop-up. Instead, they are stacked up in the "unread notifications" place (which appears as the envelope-like icon the systray area).
I don't get this "unread notifications" place. In GNOME 3, they popup almost always. In latest versions the popup is sometimes shown with a delay, but IIRC that's decided by gnome-shell.
Suggest just filing a bug so some developer looks at it. Ideally whatever handles the "unread notifications" place.
FWIW, most GNOME apps just use (IIRC) persistent notifications; that's in the specification.
Hi Olav,
Thank you for replying.
You're right that under gnome-shell all is OK.
However, actually I don't use gnome-shell. Instead I use Openbox + some GNOME3-related programs (like gnome-settings-daemon) to bring some of GNOME3 desktop integration features.
In my case, the effect of unread notifications is the one you can see in the following screenshot http://i48.tinypic.com/2qkovpw.png In this screenshot there are two unread notifications: one from mail-notification and the other one from radiotray. For instance, in case of radiotray, when a new song begin, I can see the related popup if there is already a related unread notification.
Cheers,
-- Marco
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:16:08AM +0200, sguazt wrote:
In my case, the effect of unread notifications is the one you can see in the following screenshot http://i48.tinypic.com/2qkovpw.png In this screenshot there are two unread notifications: one from mail-notification and the other one from radiotray. For instance, in case of radiotray, when a new song begin, I can see the related popup if there is already a related unread notification.
Basically, the notification manager (the icon in your screenshot) is always in control about the behaviour. The manager can do whatever it wants basically. So it could always show a new notification, if set to do so.
Applications can request a certain behaviour, and the way that they send notifications to the manager can affect how things appear. E.g. GNOME apps usually use 'persistent' notifications (which is why I assume they're behaving differently). But the 'manager' (again, the icon) is always in control. That bit actually decides if to show a popup or not.
So suggest to file a bug against that icon.
Note that some apps do their own popups, I'm just talking about anything linked against libnotify.