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[Omar B. <estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

gnome-shell lets you click on some notifications, even reply IM. The behavior is per app and is nice.

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> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:43:36 -0400
> From: joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx
> To: ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ayatana] shortcut - open/focus last program that send a notification
>
> Den 31. okt. 2011 19:25, skrev James Jenner:
> >
> > I only say this because often I will see a notification from an
> > application that is on a different workspace and the effort to open
> > said application would be simplified if I could just click the
> > notification (which currently just makes the notification go fuzzy,
> > not sure on the logic for this). Again, maybe it's just the
> > notifications I'm dealing with and maybe other notifications support this.
>
> The logic is that it should be possible to notify a user without
> requiring any action from that user that will be annoying and cause loss
> of focus. It would be inconsistent if some notifications would require
> an action and other not. Also, suddenly displaying a clickable
> notification above your application can have some very unexpected
> consequences. For instance, say I have Thunderbird maximized and I want
> to search my emails. I click the search field to give it focus, but at
> the moment I click, there is a notification. Because I clicked so
> quickly, I could not see what the notification was about. With your
> suggestion, it would also open another application and give it focus.
>
> Notifications are transient. They do not usually require an action,
> though I think it's possible for applications to present actionable
> notifications though they are discouraged. Indicators, on the other
> hand, is well suited for things that require an action. You also have
> status information on launcher entries, with quicklists that can make it
> easy to react to them.
>
> In addition to notifications, indicators and launcher entry status, you
> also have application urgency, which makes the entry shake and the
> "window open" arrow turn blue. Because this is urgent, I think it would
> make sense to have a keyboard shortcut to focus it. The question is what
> keyboard shortcut to use. Ctrl+BAT might be useful. (BAT == Button Above
> Tab -- and Tab backwards :))
>
> Jo-Erlend Schinstad
>
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