Message Tray Updates
Status: In progress
Description
One of the prominent features of gnome-shell from the beginning was the message tray. To address some of the interaction drawbacks of the existing implementation / design, a few changes have been proposed. These are outlined in GnomeShell/Design/Guidelines/MessageTray.
Owner
Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Involved Parties
Ana Risteska (Outreach Program for Women intern)
Affected modules: gnome-shell
Current Status
Some patches are starting to land.
The planned changes are being tracked in following bugs:
677210 Don't show the message tray background when a banner pops up - 677215 Trigger the tray with downward pressure, not hot corner
- 677213 Restyle the message tray
- 677216 Don't time out banners when the user is inactive
657278 Remove chats after all read and inactive for a while
- 669508 online/away/offline/away/online is too much
652752 don't pop up under the pointer
657277 don't lose messages
- 679809 Close buttons on expanded notifications and bubbles
Maybe not this cycle:
677217 Separate expanded notifications from the screen edge, queue new notifications beneath them
Ana recently posted an update about improved presence indication.
Most of the improvements are included in the 3.5.90 release.
Bugs
Most of this feature has now landed. Here are related bugs:
High priority:
First tray item is always selected when opening with super+M, keynav is broken |
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Focusing the text entry doesn't force expanded chat banners to stay open |
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Legacy tray items don't have a context menu any more |
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On-screen keyboard notification doesn't work with new message tray |
Lower priority:
Super+M should close the tray as well as open it |
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Focused window blinks when the pointer moves over a notification |
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Close buttons on tray bubbles shouldn't remove the message source |
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Close button positioning - should be lower and to the left |
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We still don't have a solution for legacy tray icons |
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Non-square tray items, insufficient horizontal padding |
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Pointer over notifications is not recognized when moving in sideways |
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Increase the opacity of the message tray lightbox |
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Close buttons overlap the screen edge |
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Make the message tray less prominent in the overview |
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Message badges need restyling |
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vmware icon appears to be stretched in new message tray |
How to Help
Contact Marina, Ana or Debarshi - or attach patches to any of the above bugs