Multimedia key notifications are useless
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-settings-
After upgrading to Jaunty, I now see a notification every time i press prev/next on my keyboard. These notifications are extraneous, and annoying. When I have no music player running, I still get the notifications. Do I really need a notification to tell me that I pressed a key? Also, when rhythmbox is running, and iconified in my tray, I now get two notifications, one for the song change from rhythmbox (which is actually useful, as it has song title/artist info), and another from gnome-settings-
Can we please get rid of the keypress notification? It's only useful to notify me of a keypress, if something was supposed to happen, and instead didn't. But in that case, I would rather be notified of the error, and not the fact that I pressed the key. For example, with eject, I would rather know that the device is locked by some process, than that I pressed the key and the drive didn't eject. When pressing eject, I'm expecting it to eject, and so then I can directly see/hear/feel that the drive tray did not eject.
Related branches
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → desktop-bugs |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
Hi Rodney, as far as I can see you pointed out many "glitches" of the new notification system.
Many of these are already being discussed in the relevant bug reports:
bug #345363: "Next track" notification appears even if nothing listening
bug #345296: confirmation bubble is overlapped by notification bubbles
bug #354149: Synchronous notification bubble does not appear under existing bubble
bug #354339: Notification bubble can change size while Confirmation bubble is visible
Some of the problems you listed do not have a bug report filed against the correct package or project.
I suggest you to comment and subscribe to the bugs listed above, and to report new bugs for the problems you did encounter with the new notify-OSD: a bug report should list only a problem, without going off-topic.