RE: How to get Empathy to always popup msgs

[Gabriel Rossetti <gabriel rossetti trafigura com>]

You are correct, I have never directly voiced miscontempt with the notification system. I didn't do so since 
other have but maybe I should have.

The biggest issue I have is the fact that I have no way of knowing a notification came and went, I have to 
activate activities or try to get the notification bar to come up when I want it to and not come up when I 
don't want it to. I eventually installed an extension to deactivate the notification bar from popping up 
since I activated it too much by mistake and it gets annoying. It gets worst for non-tecky users, I have had 
to deactivate it for them since they just don't understand what is going on when the move the mouse by 
mistake and activate it, they say their screen is frozen.

If someone writes me a msg on empathy and I am not there to see the notification, I have no clue someone 
wrote to me, I have often missed important msgs because of this since they are hidden away. It gets even 
worst for non-supported ones like Skype. If you look at android for example, just by looking at the screen I 
know I have received emails, chat msgs, etc; if I want more info I can quickly get that. In GS I have to 
click/move my mouse/kit a key (being proactive) to know I have a notification, which makes them useless IMO 
since they don't notify my of anything (unless I see the notification popup, I find those to be too 
distracting and intrusive).

Cheers,
Gabriel


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From: gnome-shell-list [gnome-shell-list-bounces gnome org] on behalf of Jasper St. Pierre [jstpierre mecheye 
net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 17:37
To: Adam Williams
Cc: gnome-shell-list
Subject: Re: How to get Empathy to always popup msgs

I've never heard you express frustrations before about notifications. Do you have any specific issues with 
them?


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org<mailto:awilliam whitemice org>> 
wrote:
On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 07:53 +0000, Gabriel Rossetti wrote:
> so nobody know how to do this? Does this need an extension too?

I'm not aware of how to do this [but I'm on GNOME 3.6;  I know that 3.8
changes a bunch of notification related stuff].

Generally notifications in GNOME-Shell [at least up to and including
3.6] are *LAME* bordering on useless.   Otherwise GNOME-Shell / GNOME3
is great - but the notifications scheme -  ARGHHH!

If you find a setting / tweak please post back, I'd love to see it.

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