Re: Clicking on the text of some notifications does nothing

[Onyeibo Oku <twohotis gmail com>]

On 01/24/2011 03:30 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Is this a bug, or a feature?
>
> With some notifications, if you click on the icon it'll launch the
> related app, and if you click on the text of the notification (e.g.
> 'abrt applet') it'll pop up a full notification. This is pretty good.
> With others, you have to click on the icon to get anything to happen;
> clicking on the text does nothing.
>
> For me, this is the case with Xchat and Fedora's update applet: with
> both of them, if I click on the text, nothing at all happens. If I click
> on the icon, the appropriate action happens (xchat comes to the
> foreground, or the update app launches).
>
> The xchat one in particular is really annoying, because it means the
> notification acts as if it's running away - i move my mouse over the
> icon and it moves away to display the name of the app, clicking on which
> does nothing at all! I have to carefully position my pointer over the
> icon to make it move away, then carefully move my pointer again to the
> new location of the icon to actually click on it and get xchat to
> activate...
>
> I think when there's no more detailed notification pop-up to be
> displayed when you click the text, clicking the text should simply do
> the same as clicking the icon.
>
> (of course I never do this because it's so finicky, I just alt-tab to
> it. but still. actually, i think the movement behaviour is a bit buggy
> depending on exactly how you move the pointer within the notification
> area.)


A HUGE +1 ... same here