Notify OSD integration instead of popup

[Beanow]

Expected behaviour:
When email comes in the notification if this shows up in the top right in Notify OSD style.

Observed behaviour:
Notifications appear as a popup window with Open|Close|Ok options, in the center of the screen.

Further information:
This behavior is very unlike the rest of the unity experience and should be moved to Notify OSD integration to improve user experience. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDevelopmentGuidelines
Command to preview expected behaviour: notify-send -c "email.arrived" "New email: <email address hidden>" "Subject: Testing\r\nSummary: Testing 1... 2... 3..."
If requested I might attempt at implementing this.

Testing system:
Ubuntu Oneiric (11.10) 64bits
mail-notification v5.4 (installed from Ubuntu Software Center)

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
Precise ships an updated version of mail-notification, so your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect 911260 and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Beanow (beanow)]

Ok. What would be the easiest way to test this while keeping my current install intact? Is it possible like with kernel versions to incorporate precise in it or do I go for a dualboot/liveCD setup?

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

Easiest way is to use a liveCD: after booting, install mail-notification and wait for a new mail (or send one to yourself) to check whether your issue is fixed. Disadvantage is that you need to install and configure your email, but you cannot break your existing setup.

Another possibility to download the Precise package manually and see whether it can be installed (ie all dependencies are available). If not, the missing dependencies will be reported and if there are no dependencies on 'core packages' (like libc6) you could try to install them as well. A more 'automated' way for doing so is adding the Precise repositories and using 'apt pinning' to selectively allow to install precise packages.

[Beanow (beanow)]

I checked it out from a live USB running 12.04 beta 2. Installed mail-notification and added gmail account. Same thing happens.

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

I have send your issue/feature request upstream: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668587