Blur when mouse over the bubble

[centy]

I do not understand why bubble became blurred when mouse is on the bubble. It looks totally pointless. There is not way to block bubble from disappear and read message it contains. If I put mouse over it, then message is not readable.
There should be also some kind of messages history, or something similar. Some notifications as IM notification I want to see, there is no way to guess what cause that notification if I do not read message on time.

[Jan (jancborchardt-deactivatedaccount)]

As far as I know, this is not a bug. The blurring is so that you can see what is underneath it, in case the notification is blocking anything you need to access with the mouse.

I agree that the behavior is somehow unintuitive though. The notifications seem like they can be acted upon, and a natural thing to do on mouse over would be to be able to do just that.

Gnome Shell (and Mac OS for that matter) have a better solution because theirs is not ambiguous as to whether it is interactive as well.

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

The bubble becoming blurred is an intened feature and no bug. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD#Interaction for further explanation.

[centy (jacek-nowosielski)]

Well, in my opinion it is bug in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD#Interaction then.
This feature is pointless and useless. Worse is that this feature make all NotifyOSD useless. It is better to use native notifications, maybe they do not look such nice but they are useful, and do they job instead of NotifyOSD bubbles.

[MarkieB (ubunt-u-markbenjamin)]

In fairness, it's a 'feature' that is one of the more unpopular
'features' :-)
My understanding is that it derives from the 'Open Desktop
Specification' although who wrote the Open Desktop Specification is
unclear :-D
for instance its google ranking as a search term is hardly encouraging
" Results *1* - *10* of *10* for *"open desktop specification"*" :-D

there's definitely a case for some configurability in how notifications
appear, at least, even though it may be reasonable to demand that the
way they respond to clicks [ie no launch/foreground click] be standardized;

I'd say centy may well have put his finger on it when he refers to the
ability to keep the notification visible for longer; it could be made
configurable to allow a click to do that, even a gconf setting without a
specific gui to set it would at least allow those who really need
configurability to reconfigure

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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