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Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

Here's another datapoint I just noticed.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/440865 is still affecting and confusing users. Incoming SIP calls in particular are difficult to respond to in a timely manner. If it's a PSTN-originating call, users only have a fixed amount of time to respond before the call goes to voicemail. Right now, users require the following process:

1) Notice notify-osd bubble
2) Locate changed indicator bubble on panel
3) Open indicator
4) Locate incoming call in indicator menu
5) Click incoming call

With an interactive notification-daemon:

1) Notice notification-daemon bubble
2) Click 'Accept'

Ubuntu's initial response was to mark this as upstream. Upstream says "Thanks for your bug report but this bug is due to Ubuntu's indicator patch which has been considered as not mature enough by upstream."

Usability concerns aside, maybe the question is not about distributions picking this up, but upstream developers.

What upstream projects have worked to accomodate 'ethereal' notifications?

What about gnome in general? Is gnome 3.0 (gnome-shell specifically) going to interoperate well with this idea?

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 20:14, Jorge O. Castro <jorge@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Jim Rorie <jfrorie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I haven't seen nor read about another distro picking it up, outside
> those downstream from Ubuntu.  What's more disconcerting is that Mozilla
> hasn't committed.  And I don't blame them.  To implement notifications
> is to lose functionality.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469880


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