Bug 179855

Summary:	Notification windows for Gnome applets are offset from the lower panel only
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Sandra Holmes <sholmes>
Component:	GNOME	Assignee:	Vincent Untz <vuntz>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	captain.magnus, suse-beta
Version:	Alpha 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.1
Whiteboard:	gnome-usability, gnomeup-notification-daemon
Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Sandra Holmes 2006-05-30 12:03:58 UTC

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a panel and attach it to the top of the screen
2. Move Gnome Power Manager or Network Manager applets to the new panel
3. Force an event by unpluggin the power or network cable

Issue:
1. Notification windows display against the lower panel

Recommendation:
1. Notification windows should offset themselves from the panel to which
   the applet is a member.

Comment 1 JP Rosevear 2006-05-30 13:04:14 UTC

This is actually intentional design by the UI team, it always displays in the lower right (whether or not you have a panel there).

Comment 2 Sandra Holmes 2006-05-30 22:52:17 UTC

Is this a HIG best practice or our decision at Novell?  The reason I raised this is that I believe that there would be higher visual affordance in binding visual event cues to the proximity of their parent (i.e., a bubble notification with the bubble's apex pointing to the parent applet on the panel).  Our notifications are rectangular and disjointed from the parent.  I'd be interested to understand this decision (not a biggy though!)  e-mail is sholmes_at_novell_dot_com

Comment 4 JP Rosevear 2007-11-02 20:36:16 UTC

This was intentional, but its a decision we should revisit.  I added it to:
http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Desktop_Policy

Comment 5 Magnus Boman 2008-03-19 10:07:01 UTC

*** Bug 221604 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Magnus Boman 2008-03-19 10:08:53 UTC

Changing to an RFE so that we catch it for the Desktop Policy Review

Comment 7 Vincent Untz 2008-04-03 18:28:37 UTC

Stephen: the reason the policy is this way is for cases where you have two notifications at the same time. They can overlap with the standard theme.

With latest factory, the standard theme works like upstream (it wasn't the case before, it was always appearing in the corner). So, I think we can't do better than this. Closing the bug as fixed.