Changes/GnomeShell NewNotifications

Gnome Shell - New Notifications

Summary

Redesign the way in which notifications are shown and kept available in gnome-shell.

Owner

• Name: Florian Müllner
• Email: fmuellne@redhat.com
• Release notes owner:

• Product: Workstation
• Responsible WG: Workstation WG

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 22
• Last updated: 2015-01-08
• Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

The message tray is one of the remaining weaker points of the original gnome-shell design. This change will replace it with a new implementation of notifications that avoids the problems of the current implementation.

Benefit to Fedora

Fedora users can enjoy their notifications more and become happier users of their OS.

Scope

• Proposal owners:
  • Implement the new design
  • Get the changes reviewed and merged upstream

• Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

Run gnome-shell and interact with the desktop and applications in a way that exercises the various kinds of notifications that may occur, and verify that they all behave as expected and according to the design:

• Chat notifications
• Urgent notifications
• Transient notifications
• Notifications with actions
• Notifications without actions

User Experience

See the design for the new notifications.

Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Blocks product? no

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)