New notifications concerns

[Bruce Cowan]

On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 18:54 -0800, Dylan McCall wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
> 
> Regarding the upstream changes, these should be thought of as bug
> fixes. A notification server specifies to clients whether it can
> support Actions, summaries and other such things. The client is
> supposed to use that information and behave responsibly. This is not
> just for notify-osd. Think news tickers - a notification style popular
> on smartphones.
> 
> An incredible number of clients behave totally irresponsibly and
> assume all notification servers are like GNOME's default. This is
> finally being fixed.
> 

It's hardly surprising behaviour considering the only notification
daemon supported all these features.

Now, there could be loss of functionality without actions though, so I'm
not sure why this decision was made.

> I think it would be nice if dialogs appeared blended with their parent
> windows, replacing or (where possible) pushing away the window
> contents. (Think Firefox's notification bar, but for windows). 
> 

Perhaps a notification widget in GTK+ like GeditMessageArea (or whatever
it's called) would be useful.
-- 
Bruce Cowan <http://launchpad.net/~bruce89>
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