Belated notifications?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 04:44:42 -0400 (EDT), Kamil Paral wrote:

> > I'm facing an issue with F22 where notifications in GNOME Shell seem to
> > survive a shutdown/reboot. Eventually I notice there are notifications,
> > and when I look them up, they are about events from the previous day,
> > for example.
> > 
> > Something similar to "You may unplug the drive", and it has been
> > disconnected already long ago. Apparently, the system didn't notice or
> > didn't inform the notification system that it may expire the message.
> 
> That's this:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746027
> 
> However, I'm not sure whether the updated package is already in F22 or not. Could you provide your gnome-shell version in that bug report and ask whether it should be fixed in it or not yet? Maybe they have missed some corner cases.
> 

That ticket talks about dismissing/closing notifications, which may be
something completely different.

I'm not a fan of the current notification system. Typically I don't
notice the small circle right of the date. I don't think I closed/dismissed
notifications before they would come back after reboot. I likely didn't
open them. They become stale, apparently don't expire, and nothing checks
whether they are still current?

Just some minutes ago, I noticed the circle, clicked on it:
Software Updates available, but the started gnome-software claims
"""Software is up to date (Last checked: 12:41)""".

Meanwhile, running "dnf update" shows 64 new packages.

Guys, that smells like major breakage in several areas to me. The last
update with dnf was run on 2015-04-24, so what does the notification
refer to?

I take it there is no history feature available in gnome-software?

> > "An important software update has failed", and clicking it only starts
> > gnome-software with no hint on what has failed or when. The last update
> > has been done with dnf, btw.
> 
> Can you please file a bug against gnome-software, in GNOME Bugzilla? I have discussed this with Matthias Clasen, he says the notifications should carry a hint to the program in question and open the correct part of the program. In case of gnome-software, you should see an upgrade results overview (with the same output as in `pkcon offline-status`), instead of just opening the app in the default view. It's a bug.
>

Usually I'm too late filing such tickets and developers are aware of
the problem already, use something newer, while Fedora has included
broken releases. Anyway, I've opened 748582 and 748583.