[arch-general] Gnome3: gnome-shell and notifications, broken?

[Magnus Therning]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 11:59:10PM +0100, Jan Steffens wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> > What I find surprising here is that
> >
> > 1. I never get to see the text, no matter what I do
> > 2. 'open' doesn't open but removes
> >
> > Is this weird behaviour unique to my system, or is it just an area in
> > serious need of improvement in Gnome3?
> 
> 1. Weirdness on your system. This is how it's supposed to look like:
>    http://ompldr.org/vZ3owYw

That does indeed look *very* different from my system.  I had a hunch
and switched to another gnome-shell theme this morning and tested
again--now it looks better.  So it seems the 'alternative' theme[1],
which I've been using because it has a slimmer top panel, is broken.
How irritating!

You don't happen to know a good theme (that doesn't break
notifications) with a slim top panel? ;)

> 2. "Open" is meant to close the notification and callback to the
>    application that sent the notification (e.g. to open a window).
>    Since notify-send doesn't support callbacks, it just closes the
>    notification.

A, thanks for that explanation, it wasn't obvious to me what 'open'
was supposed to do.

/M

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