[notifications] Can't dismiss notification bubbles

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

On a phone with accounts setup for twitter, facebook and 2x google accounts I get a fair number of notifications.
Often times these notifications appear while I'm actually using the phone.
This presents issues in multiple areas:-

* If I'm in the dash I am blocked from using the search function because a notification covers the search button
* If I'm in the dash and already searching, having typed something, I'm blocked from seeing what I'm typing by the notification
* In apps I can't go "back" because the notification blocks the button

You get the idea. Basically notifications slow me down, because I have to wait for them to disappear. I'd like to be able to dismiss them. On iOS you swipe up which is indicated with a horizontal bar to grab and swipe away.

--------UX comment---------

We've added in the latest specification for notifications bubbles the ability to dismiss a notification via swiping left to right or right to left. Link to the spec: https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/document/d/1xDSZ_dnAMAlhgFnnyjJEibaITXjVLp1_pnj_tATNm9I/edit#heading=h.oyrtfe5olpe2

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

An idea I've had is to have the notification area act slightly similarly to an app. For example if you have a busy gmail account and are trying to watch a movie you don't to be interrupted by it. The possible solution would be to be able to click on the app you had open and have it sticky to the foreground until the app is closed or swipe and then have the notifications continue to appear. If you swipe the app away to open another you can then tap the Scope (as it is an app) and then that gets foreground attention freezing up the notifications again.

Another possibly easier solution would be to add a cross or swipe action similar to Alan suggestion to just get rid of the notification.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

Daniela, as this is a public bug could you please make that document publicly visible if there is no reason not to.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity8 - 8.02+15.04.20150211-0ubuntu1

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unity8 (8.02+15.04.20150211-0ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

  [ Michael Terry ]
  * Redesign tutorial to match latest spec (just removing obsolete pages
    and redesigning look, no new pages yet)
  * Add new right-edge and bottom-edge screens to the first-boot edge
    tutorial (LP: #1383297)
  * Support switching the indicator profile on the fly, as the greeter
    appears and disappears. (But don't use it yet, not until the
    settings panel to control this is in place.)
  * Clip the infographic to its bounding box, instead of letting it
    bleed past the welcome page (visible when dragging the welcome page
    to the side).

  [ Michael Zanetti ]
  * Add an AccountService based launcher model to be used with split
    greeter
  * Launcher fixes for windowed mode
  * save and restore window size and position
  * Fix resizing windows when making it smaller than minSize and then
    larger again.

  [ handsome_feng<email address hidden> ]
  * makes the header fully reveal when tapping the search icon. (LP:
    #1379327)

  [ Mirco Müller ]
  * Allow swipe-to-dismiss for contracted snap-decision notifications,
    interactive notifications and ephemeral notifications. (LP:
    #1355422, #1334855)

  [ Daniel d'Andrada ]
  * Make indicators bar eat all events
  * Improve Launcher tests, making them more reliable
  * Tapping on a surface gives it active focus
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:13:16 +0000

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity8 - 8.02+15.04.20150217~rtm-0ubuntu1

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unity8 (8.02+15.04.20150217~rtm-0ubuntu1) 14.09; urgency=medium

  [ Albert astals ]
  * Preserve the aspect ratio for the card attribute images

  [ Andrea Cimitan ]
  * support background on horizontal cards with summary (LP: #1393008)
  * Background needs to be specified to be visible in horizontal cards
  (LP: #1411748)

  [ Daniel d'Andrada ]
  * Don't show() the lockscreen if it's already being shown

  [ Joshua Arenson ]
  * Create a PhysicalKeyMapper to handle all physical/hardware keys

  [ Michał Sawicz ]
  * Create a PhysicalKeyMapper to handle all physical/hardware keys

  [ Mirco Müller ]
  * Allow swipe-to-dismiss for contracted snap-decision notifications,
    interactive notifications and ephemeral notifications. (LP:
    #1355422, #1334855)
 -- CI Train Bot <email address hidden> Tue, 17 Feb 2015 10:47:19 +0000