GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 326753
Where have my pop ups gone?
Last modified: 2013-09-13 00:58:57 UTC
It seems that: Pop Up An Alert now means put a little blinking exclamation point on a panel applet. Could we please (as it always has in the past) mean Pop Up an Actual Alert. I think there should be another Alert type that says: Panel Notification or something which would put the nice little exclamation point up there. But for important meetings, I need something screaming at me, not a little panel applet that I can hardly see unless I look right at it. Didn't we have this fight already in the 2.3.x series?
Moving it to major as indicates a functionality missing compared with the previous releases.
My understanding is that the changes to the alarm-notify code imply that in order to have good visual notification of alarms, you need evolution built against libnotify, and for the notify-daemon to be running. Otherwise you don't get much of an alert. This is partly a packaging bug (skadz is running Fedora packages and they didn't have the correct dependencies for a while: fixed for Fedora in evolution-2.5.4-6); may affect other distributions. Is this enabled in jhbuild and garnome? I think it could be argued that libnotify is a strong dependency; you get the kind of regression described in this bug if you configure without it. Perhaps the configure.in should require you to explicitly disable libnotify support, rather than test for it when proceeding?
ryan, we have libnotify messages to notify the meeting and notification area to notify as well. (The icon doesnt remove from there, which is a different bug(bug #325762)) which im fixing it. Im closing this as not a bug. May be a pkg issue as dave says. I would prefer to close this as not a bug. Please feel free to reopen it with further points on this. Thanks.
I won't re-opoen just yet, but two points: a) What happens if I don't have libnotify? Seems like the old behaviour should still be there for these people. b) Are the notifications sticky? Aka, do they stay up until someone does something with them (aka, click) or are they just there for a few seconds and then go away? If it is b, this behaviour needs to be fixed and if there isn't already a bug on this, I will add one.
ryan, nice point. But I feel, if libnotify is part of GNOME 2.14 and then im not sure whether the first question stands right after that? May be you can answer me, if im wrong. It just stays for some seconds (configurable, from libnotify side, i guess. Im not sure.) But the main notification icon will be showing you the status. it wont be present in tray other wise(tb fixed). If you want the notification to stay, then its same as what was earlier.
OK, I didn't know that it was official that libnotify was gonna be in 2.14, if so, then this totally works. Actually, there is a timeout value that can be set on a popup in the eveolution code and I would really like to see it set to 0, so that the popup stays up until it is recognized and clicked on. This was the previous behavior and it seems to be a regression if the notification doesn't stay up. If I'm away from my desk, the little flashing icon isn't really obvious when I return.
ryan,, it was proposed and the consolidation is likely to have it :). I would prefer you to file this timeout stuff as a diff enh/bug, so that i can ask some one to look into it.. i guess libnotify has some api like that also.. should be simple i guess, but not sure. :)