On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Giovanni Campagna <scampa.giova...@gmail.com> wrote: > Il giorno dom, 26/06/2011 alle 14.24 +0200, Marcel ha scritto: >> Am 26.06.2011 14:13, schrieb Tim Cuthbertson: >> > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy >> > <pclo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Does anybody else find it difficult to click on an icon in message >> >> tray? If I just move my pointer a little bit further to next icon on >> >> the right of the icon I want to select, the icon will be moved and it >> >> takes more time to move my mouse back and forth to locate to my icon. >> >> >> >> Why can't we just use tooltip instead and make icon placement more >> >> persistent? >> >> -- >> >> Duy >> > >> > Agreed. This makes it impractical to actually use the notification >> > area without having to be really careful. I assume there's a redesign >> > of that area in the pipeline (it seems unloved, and the whole panel >> > applets issue still seems somewhat under-developed), so hopefully >> > that's going to be fixed as part of that work? (I'm just guessing, I >> > have no idea if any such work is even planned). >> >> People always said that clicking the text works fine, therefore the >> jumping icons are not a problem. With Pidgin however, clicking the text >> just shows the recent notification (which made me want to open the >> contact list!) and doesn't behave like clicking the Pidgin tray icon >> directly. That only works as intended when there's no recent notification. >> (Should this possibly go into a bug report? I've no overview which bugs >> are known...) > > Actually, this behaviour is intended. It was chosen to account for > programs like gwibber and liferea, that have both a notification and a > status icon. Without that, it is impossible to access the notification > from the message tray.
I thought that we should show a separate icon for the notification in that case. > The right fix is to detect the persistence capability in libnotify and > use that instead of status icons; support for systray is just for > compatibility with existing apps. > > Giovanni > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > > -- Jasper _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
