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Description of problem: Doesn't matter what settings you put for bubble notifications. They aren't followed by Empathy. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.0.1 How reproducible: Change the bubble notification settings and see what happenes. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: The bubbles behaviour is like all the display options were activated (Contact logs in, logs off, new message...). Expected results: Even if you completely deactivate the bubbles, they show up anyway. Additional info:
I confirm this on empathy.i686 3.0.2-2.fc15. Very annoying! I can be typing a chat in a foreground window and the bubble pops right in front of the window. I'd like to just turn them off but due to this issue, I cannot!
I'm guessing this bug is actually with GNOME Shell, but until I have time to investigate, I'll leave it assigned to empathy.
If there's some way I can confirm this theory, I'm happy to test (as a rather lay person, however!).
I would think switching to fallback mode would be able to confirm it, since I believe notifications are handled like they were back in gnome2. I could be wrong on this fact, since I haven't played with fallback mode, but since GNOME Shell isn't running that should take it out of the equation.
Well, I think this 'bug' is related with Gnome 3 after all. The idea of those popups always showing, is to let people read and reply to chat messages from Empathy, without interrupting what they are doing. So, perhaps it's really meant to be this way... What isn't really right, is the way the popups are shown. A bar shows up on the bottom of the screen, which doesn't allow me to do anything, while it's displayed. For example, if I am reading something on firefox and someone chats with me, the popup keeps showing and doesn't let me to scroll down the webpage (the bar occupies the whole of the bottom of the screen and the down arrow gets covered). This happens in other situations and other programs and is really annoying. What was meant to allow the person not to distract itself, makes it worse actually. The solution would be: a) Empathy settings being respected (in case people want to disable popups). b) The popup bar occupy less space on the screen. Perhaps just the lenght of the message, so we can keep doing what we were doing and read the message at the same time. Anyway, this is more a matter of Gnome 3 discussion than a bug. :)
Volans - well said. The bug description is still valid. Additionally, the design of the popup bubbles may bear some discussion ;)
Workaround - use Pidgin.
Well, if Pidgin didn't have problems also, I would. But I would like more Gnome programmers to just realise the obvious annoyance and do the necessary changes. :P
No question there - but this bug is seriously bad for me while presenting on a projection screen. It's a deal-breaker for Empathy. I hope this gets resolved; I'd like to use the default Gnome applets. I did grab the Empathy source code but got lost pretty quickly; I may try again later to come up with a patch.
BTW - pidgin + gnome-shell-extension-pidgin behaves exactly like Emapthy in this regard.
I wish there was a place where these issues could be discussed. Ohh well...
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