Notifications: uselessness of

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Friday 27 February 2009 4:35:55 pm Milosz Derezynski wrote:
> The thing is, it's in the first place not the notification system that
> should be overhauled, or actions removed from
> notifications, but the apps or subsystems should be fixed so that actions
> that basically *require* user interaction
> are presented in a different form than in a notification.

Agreed.  I like the look of the new notifications, don't get me wrong, 
but...this no-actions thing is really annoying.  Pidgin-libnotify had a show 
button so I could automatically open a chat window for whomever had just 
signed on, or view the chat window upon receiving a message.  I can't do this 
anymore thanks to Notify-OSD.  I would like, at least, a way to focus the 
parent applications (if a GUI app) for a notification...perhaps holding down 
Ctrl would highlight the notification somehow, signaling (for discoverability) 
that the notification could be used in some way. So Ctrl+clik would bring the 
parent app to focus.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
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