Re: Clicking on the text of some notifications does nothing

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

This is a bug with the legacy XEmbed notification icons. I believe Dan Winship
was working on something to fix this.

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Onyeibo Oku <twohotis gmail com> wrote:
> 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
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