GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 635156
Have a way to dismiss notifications
Last modified: 2011-06-19 22:23:03 UTC
Currently there's no way to remove a notification that is waiting for your input on the down-right corner, except clicking on it, which brings you to the app that is reponsible for it. This means you can't close a chat conversation without clicking the the notification, going to the chat window, and hitting the window's close button. Same for startup notification: you are forced to focus the newly-started app. Same for new incoming mail... I guess it would make sense to have a small close button a the top-right corner of notifications, that would remove them from the bar. Users shouldn't be annoyed more than necessary with notifications, and the feeling that you can dismiss them when you want is part of this IMHO.
At one point we had a plan to add a right-click/click-and-hold menu that offered to remove the source. I think it still probably makes sense to do that. I think that is probably better than a small target close button that may be hard to hit when you want to hit it and too easy to hit when you don't.
(In reply to comment #1) > I think that is probably better than a small target close button that may be > hard to hit when you want to hit it and too easy to hit when you don't. Yes, I frequently end up missing the close box when trying to dismiss the (#!$@#) "you have unused icons" balloon in XP. OTOH, it's much more discoverable than a menu.
The right-click menu with a close option is described in bug 617224 and we are still planning to implement that.
The idea is that you could dismiss a notification in just one click, while the menu would 1) only work for icons, so you can't kill a notification when it appears, and 2) require right click, move to the menu item you want, and left click. The close button also feels more natural.
We now have the right click menu with a Remove option and I believe we are not planning to implement the close button for notifications.