GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 640917
If notification shows only a URL, add a "Follow" button
Last modified: 2012-11-02 11:28:43 UTC
Created attachment 179613 [details] [review] A rough sketch of what I mean When people IM me out of the blue, so that I'm working in another program and a notification pops up, very often what they're sending me is a URL they want me to look at. I would rather like it if notifications which contained only a URL had a "Follow" button, like this: http://i.imgur.com/PhoUF.png Then I could either dismiss them or go and see what they were talking about without having to switch back to Empathy on the way. A rough sketch of what I mean is attached; I haven't tested it.
Is it impossible to just linkify the links directly?
@Thurman , simply I think this is a very very nice idea. It would be really great to have both things , a clickable link in the popup, as well as a Follow button. I would leave the cancel button out, and simply the pop-up disapears if its not clicked, or if you just click on the pop-up , not the link and not the follow button.
Hello! It would be nice, if starting conversation would still be possible. So my proposal is to have a popup with THREE buttons: a) dismiss, b) discuss, c) follow the link. Linkify the links directly is not bad idea either, why not to have both? (Remember, there is always "more then one way how to do it" ;-)
Linkifying will require the notification to support that, the Moblin/MeeGo notifications mentioned in the bug above specifically strip pango markup etc. so it can't be the only solution, although as Petr mentions, there's more than one way to do it. I think this is an awesome idea, content and context specific actions are great. Although the label 'Follow' is a little opaque. 'Open in $Browser' is better, if a little bit too wordy. 'Open link' might work well.
Sorry, by bug I of course meant blog post: http://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/201721.html
I'd be tempted to say that notifications should just support links (I think GNOME 3 will).
I find it a great Idea too, though I feel that having only the follow button is enough since I like simplicity
It's a nice idea, in the absence of clickable links. I don't think "Follow" is the right word, though -- to me, given that this is an instant message of some kind, that means "follow this user". I agree with Nick that something more direct like "Open Link" would be more appropriate. And TBH, it might be nice to have this option whether or not the message consisted of *only* a URL. (It could even change to "Open Links" and open all the links in the message, if there were more than one -- have seen some other IM clients do that.)
Doesn't really make sense now that notifications are done by the Shell.