Notifications can't decide where they want to be

drewofdoom · #1 16th May 2011, 04:08 PM

In Gnome 3, all notifications used to show up on the bottom of the screen. But now certain things show up in a notify-OSD style popup.

For example: GMPC used to give me notification at the bottom. Now they show up in the top-right. I feel like this happened with an update.

Is this a feature change or is there something wrong?

***DBelton*** · #2 16th May 2011, 05:30 PM

I get that same thing here as well.

I have one drive that is running low on space (less than 10MB left on a 2TB drive) and sometimes the low space notification is that ugly black box down at the bottom of the screen, and sometimes it's the the standard light colored box in the middle of the screen.

I can't reproduce what causes it to revert back to the regular box in the middle, it's just a random thing.

I wish I could reproduce it, so I could have all of my notification pop up like that, instead of that ugly black box at the bottom, though.

drewofdoom · #3 16th May 2011, 09:38 PM

Yeah, I'd really prefer all my notifications in the Gnome 3 native popup (bottom bar). I don't particularly mind the Notify-OSD/Nodoka style corner popup. But one or the other.

As I've been watching it, though, it seems like application notifications come up in the OSD, and "system messages" show up on the bottom bar. Things such as "Firefox is ready" and Telepathy messages. This isn't terrible, but I'd still prefer to have all of my notifications in one place.

**AdamW** · #4 16th May 2011, 11:09 PM

there are differences in handling between 'native' Shell notifications and 'legacy' notifications, and also between regular notifications and those marked as urgent. I don't know the exact differences in how each of these are handled, but they probably account for the variances you're seeing.

drewofdoom · #5 17th May 2011, 02:17 PM

I figured as such with the native vs legacy. Don't know about the "urgent" messages.

What bugs me is that ALL notifications were showing up in the bottom "notification tray." Now only system and telepathy messages do.

Definitely not the end of the world. Just a little frustrating to have TWO notification areas...