Unread notifications dot mostly never appears, even when it should

Bug #1559491 reported by Wise Melon
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Bug Description

When a desktop notification comes up and one ignores it it goes into the little area for previous notifications next to the calendar. A little dot should also appear when you have unread notifications in that section, the dot should appear on the right of the date and time at the top.
However I have found the behaviour of this dot to be inconsistent on Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18, sometimes it does show when there are unread notifications, 98% of the time it does not though.

I have also tested Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 with both GNOME 3.18 and 3.19 and found the issue also to be present there.

Tags: bionic
summary: - Inconsistent behaviour from the unread notifications dot on 15.10
+ Inconsistent behaviour from the unread notifications dot
tags: added: wily xenial
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

I feel that the dot reliability improved in 18.10/19.04 but am not sure exactly what version.

tags: added: bionic
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
tags: removed: wily
summary: - Inconsistent behaviour from the unread notifications dot
+ Unread notifications dot mostly never appears, even when it should
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Maybe it's theme-related and improved in 18.10 with the introduction of Yaru?

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: xenial
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Eugene Romanenko (eros2) wrote :

It's normal behaviour.
Dot appear only after some amount of time and/or if there many unread notifications.

If you wish immediate notification you may install Notifications Alert extension - https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/258/notifications-alert-on-user-menu/

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