GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 130229
Message Notification ....
Last modified: 2006-03-15 20:04:45 UTC
I hope this doesn't sound like bitching, because I am only trying to help, and draw attention to something. When i get a message over gossip, I often don't notice for 15 minutes. Its pretty anoying. Why? Well, I always have some music on, and i can never hear the message arrived sound, its _very_ quiet. Solutions ... Replace it with a louder one? Allow user defined sounds (so i can choose one with arnie in it)? Provide a better visual que, look at the way MSN does its thing, its pretty hard to miss the fact that you have a message. I hope this is useful feedback. Thanks.
Actually, what I think might be interesting is to "queue" messages like we do currently if gossip is minimized to the notification area and "pop" the windows if you have the gossip window open. This way, people who want the messages can have it pop and people who dont want to be bothered can minimize gossip to the notification area. Or, you could just offer a preference.
One thing to consider: while I think MSN's "toast" popups are great, since they are pretty non-intrusive, and require no interaction, yet they never fail to get one's attention, they miss one important thing: quick keyboardability. Maybe I'm just whining about nerds-only issues here, but if I'm in the middle of doing something, I don't want to dork around with trying to hit the tiny notification area icon - I just want the chat window to pop up, so I can quickly reply and then get back to what I was doing, or, alt-tab it to the background, and reply when I'm done doing whatever I was doing. Basically, the MSN "toast" popups are great, but there needs to be a way to very quickly (and preferably without the mouse) grab the chat window for that message if it's not already open. Any design that fits that description should do fine. Sadly, I have no suggestions other than "make it a preference to just pop open a window". ;-)
we had "popup directly" before and that's not coming back (not even as a preference).
How about something like the MSN "toast" popups, though? I have not used MSN messenger but the current behavior is to notify of a new message in the system tray if there is no existing chat window for the message to go to. I would like to see that extended so that notification is also performed if the chat window is not visible. This is useful in several situations such as when the chat window is minimized, obscured by another window, on a different desktop, or grouped in a tab set where it cannot be seen at the moment. What do you think?
That's the way forward, but it needs to be done proper, people need to work with the fd.o standard notification area and get the pop-tart added in. Somebody (havoc maybe) knocked up this code that is a step in the right direction <<attached>>
Created attachment 28798 [details] slightly modified pop-tart code - needs to make its way to libegg / fd.o
Adding the PATCH keyword, will try to take a look at this soonish.
Closing this as we are using libnotify (crude support, needs some more work). Not strictly a dup of the libnotify bug, but I'm closing as that anyway. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 332169 ***