Description of problem: All desktops tested (gnome-shell, cinnamon, mate, LXDE) present problems answering calls via notifiers Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ekiga-4.0.1-1.fc17.i686 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Wait for call 2. (gnome-shell) when call notifier pops up, aim for "Answer" button and miss 3. Actual results: Notifier goes away, the phone continues to ring, but you have no way to answer it anymore! Expected results: Regardless of any cool notifiers, ekiga needs a way to answer the $%$@^&$ phone. Ekiga is supposed to be a soft-phone, not a video game. Additional info: On cinnamon, notifiers are missing the Answer and Reject buttons (cinnamon lies to ekiga about supporting those buttons). On gnome-fallback, the call notifier is halfway off the screen, so that the Answer button is not reachable. See bug#875214
I just had a brilliant idea! Maybe the ekiga GUI could have an Answer button!
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Tried this out in F19. Still same issues.
Update for F19. Notifiers stopped working completely in MATE. There is no notifier at all when the phone rings in ekiga! However, I was able to use the menu to open the call window (View/Video Preview) and press the answer button there. So I have a way to answer calls. It would be a lot easier if there was an answer button on the main window. There is a button to display the call window (with a webcam icon on it), but it is greyed out and inactive when the phone is ringing (just when you need it). I think it was a happy accident that the programmer forgot to disable the menu option when a call comes in! I understand the artistic purity of using notifiers to answer calls. But there MUST be an alternative for when notifiers are broken - as they are on half of the desktop environments ekiga could be used in. Even when notifiers work, I don't want to miss a call just because I missed the button and dismissed the notifier instead!
Notifications is the desktop's responsibility. Basically the application puts them on a bus/queue and it's the desktops job to display them
(In reply to Peter Robinson from comment #5) > Notifications is the desktop's responsibility. Basically the application > puts them on a bus/queue and it's the desktops job to display them Understood, and that may be the most aesthetically pleasing way to provide a way to answer the phone. But the reality is, that more than half of the desktops out there are BROKEN, and notifications DON'T WORK well enough to answer the phone. That is not ekiga's fault, true. But is it too much to ask for a fall back "Answer" button? Fortunately, the menu option was left enabled, but that requires 3 clicks to answer the phone. It is truly amazing to me that a seemingly simple desktop feature like pop-up notifications could be SO BROKEN in so many independent products. Maybe there is no effective test suite for them.
Seems a valid concern to me. I pushed it upstream : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720679 Thank you for reporting this issue. Regards, Yannick
mate-notification-daemon is core dumping again. Sigh. So yeah, notifiers don't work in half the desktops.
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