GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 687658
notifications lie
Last modified: 2013-08-05 19:55:46 UTC
When I user switch to another account I'm regularly confronted with a stream of notifications that are lies. I have to click through many network disconnected messages and low power warnings. These were probably generated while the other user account was active. Firstly, the notifications probably shouldn't be generated in an inactive user session. Secondly, the notifications should be removed or recalled when the condition is no longer present. Thirdly, both network and power notifications should always replace the existing notification and not add a new one. So, at most I should have one lie each.
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Hey, don't shoot the messenger :-) None of those notifications is actually ours (the power one is from g-s-d, no idea about the disconnected network - do you have nm-applet running?). If we want to, we can ignore all notifications while an account is inactive - not sure we should, as I think that some notifications are still useful when you come back (chat, email, ...). Replacing existing notifications is entirely up to the emitter.
I've filed bug 687828 against g-s-d and bug 687829 against NetworkManager.
Given how the two components have been fixed, I think this is fixed as well. Feel free to reopen if this isn't the case.