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Bug 610589 - enable notifications when chat is not focused
enable notifications when chat is not focused
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Notifications
2.29.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-02-21 09:38 UTC by Omer Akram
Modified: 2018-05-22 14:03 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
enables notifications when conversation window is unfocused by default (479 bytes, patch)
2010-03-05 04:14 UTC, Alex Launi
needs-work Details | Review

Description Omer Akram 2010-02-21 09:38:13 UTC
when the chat window is not focused and a contact sends me a message that notification should be enable by default.
in other words 'enable notifications when chat is not focused' should be enabled by default
Comment 1 Omer Akram 2010-02-21 09:46:27 UTC
originally reported at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/460286
Comment 2 Alex Launi 2010-03-05 04:14:13 UTC
Created attachment 155283 [details] [review]
enables notifications when conversation window is unfocused by default

Changes schema for /apps/empathy/notifications/notifications_focus to true by default.
Comment 3 Guillaume Desmottes 2010-03-05 08:59:23 UTC
I'm not sure about this; you are already notified through the task bar and I find this behavior pretty distractive.

Matthew, Nick: thoughts?
Comment 4 Omer Akram 2010-03-07 07:02:25 UTC
This notification should only be enabled when chat window is not foucused meaning that if chat tabs are opened and I am on one tab and someone from the other tab sends a message there should be no notification. the notification should only come if the chat window is minimized. was just chatting with two friends with notifications on this creates bug distraction.
Comment 5 Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) 2010-05-09 16:00:08 UTC
I am not certain that it is a good idea for IM notification bubbles to be on by default at all.

But if it is a good idea, the use case is to let me know what someone said in a background chat, and thereby save me the effort of switching to the chat to read it. If that's correct, notification bubbles for chats in the background should be on by default.

It's not clear from the current preferences, but it seems as though it's possible to show notification bubbles for chats that are focused. I don't know what the use case for that would be.

Incidentally, I don't think it's fair to expect most IM users to know what "focused" means. I suggest referring to "at the front", "in the background", etc.
Comment 6 Nick Richards 2010-05-18 16:54:32 UTC
In MeeGo we have removed the taskbar notifications and added bubble type notifications which only show up when the chat is in the background.

In other words - we agreed with this bug so much that we implemented it and shipped it ;-)
Comment 7 Daniel Stone 2010-06-25 16:30:02 UTC
Nice. :) I've whined about this on IRC previously, but to document it for the record: I don't have quite enough vertical space with two panels, so I have them set to autohide.  With the current taskbar-only approach, I don't realise that I have new messages until I tab across, or explicitly flick up to the taskbar to check.

Incidentally, Empathy is the only thing in my taskbar that uses it for notifying me of stuff, rather than a 'do something' icon; the others being sound, gtimelog, GTG, NM, gpm, and gweather.
Comment 8 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort 2010-12-03 18:59:02 UTC
Comment on attachment 155283 [details] [review]
enables notifications when conversation window is unfocused by default

This was for the gconf schemas but we now use gsettings.
Comment 9 Nick Richards 2011-08-21 09:27:24 UTC
In GNOME3 this is pretty true by default now, correct? So we should probably do something about this bug.
Comment 10 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-08-22 11:08:15 UTC
Indeed, that's what the Shell does. But with GNOME 2 (or another desktop actually) you have more way to notice you received a message:
- the icon of the status icon changes
- the chat windows is blinking in the windows bar (urgency hint).
Comment 11 Daniel Stone 2011-08-22 11:12:30 UTC
This is much less of an issue now the legacy panel is implemented and always visible; at least, I can't see a way to autohide the panels anymore.
Comment 12 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 14:03:18 UTC
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