[ubuntu-uk] Attractive Features for Ubuntu

[Avi Greenbury]

Liam Proven wrote:

> > The main think I like is the notification system. When logged in
> > with Empathy, if I receive a message a small notification appears
> > at the bottom of the screen with the message, which I can then
> > click to reply straight away or ignore and allow it to disappear
> > like a normal notification.
> >
> > Does anyone know of any way to get this sort of feature or anything
> > similar?
> 
> I'm puzzled. Unity does this already. The notifications are
> translucent boxes at top right of the screen. The daemon is called
> ayatana-notify, IIRC.
> 

No it doesn't. Empathy in Unity presents that pop-up at the top, in
response to which you need to hunt down the appropriate Empathy window
and type into it. Any attempt to interact with the notification causes
it to become invisible.

Gnome shell presents a pop-up from the bottom which you can respond to
by clicking on and typing into. Alternatively, you can hunt down the
Empathy window and type there if you prefer.

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Avi