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Bug 672983 - error message notification should not go away when the error is fatal
error message notification should not go away when the error is fatal
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-boxes
Classification: Applications
Component: general
3.3.x (unsupported)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-03-28 10:15 UTC by Christophe Fergeau
Modified: 2016-03-31 14:02 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
notificationbar: Don't timeout if main window isn't focused (1.62 KB, patch)
2012-03-29 16:12 UTC, Zeeshan Ali 		none Details | Review
notificationbar: Don't timeout if main window isn't active (1.74 KB, patch)
2012-03-29 16:58 UTC, Zeeshan Ali 		committed Details | Review

Description Christophe Fergeau 2012-03-28 10:15:28 UTC 
With unknown isos, when boxes fails to start up the VM from the wizard for some reason, the user ends up stuck at the "preparation" step, there's an error pop up displayed, but it disappears quickly. if the user didn't notice it, there's no easy way to figure out what went wrong. The popup should stay in this case, or maybe better, we should switch to a new wizard-like screen saying VM creation has failed.
Comment 1 Zeeshan Ali 2012-03-29 15:53:24 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> With unknown isos, when boxes fails to start up the VM from the wizard for some
> reason, the user ends up stuck at the "preparation" step, there's an error pop
> up displayed, but it disappears quickly. if the user didn't notice it, there's
> no easy way to figure out what went wrong. The popup should stay in this case,

As a starting point, I'll suggest notification bar pauses its timeout when main window is not in foreground/current.
Comment 2 Zeeshan Ali 2012-03-29 16:12:21 UTC 
Created attachment 210876 [details] [review]
notificationbar: Don't timeout if main window isn't focused
Comment 3 Zeeshan Ali 2012-03-29 16:58:36 UTC 
Created attachment 210881 [details] [review]
notificationbar: Don't timeout if main window isn't active
Comment 4 Marc-Andre Lureau 2012-03-29 19:50:07 UTC 
Review of attachment 210881 [details] [review]:

looks good
Comment 5 Zeeshan Ali 2012-03-30 01:33:55 UTC 
Attachment 210881 [details] pushed as 21d4062 - notificationbar: Don't timeout if main window isn't active