GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 701215
Clicking on the X on popped up notifications should not add them to the message tray
Last modified: 2015-03-07 05:38:32 UTC
When an incoming notification is displayed at the bottom of the screen, it has an (X) in the upper right corner. When this (X) is clicked, the expected behavior would be that the notification is completely dismissed. Instead, it's enqueued into the message tray, necessitating a second action to actually be rid of it. Clicking anywhere else on the message switches the context (and possibly workspace) to the application that generated the message. This avoids enqueuing it, but is jarring and interrupts workflow.
Additionally, there is a similar confusing behavior when viewing the message in the message-tray itself. When clicking on the icon, the message is displayed with an (X). I would expect that clicking the (X) would dismiss the message from the queue, but instead I have to right-click on the icon and select "remove" to get rid of it.
This has nothing to do with classic mode, renaming accordingly.Also see bug 682237 for the original discussion on the behavior.
Also see bug 687016
The close button has been closing notifications for a while now, and still does with the updated notifications in 3.16.