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: 2015-02-17
Tracker bug: #1184878

The work has been included in the 3.15.90 release.

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.

A detailed description of the rationale and goals behind the changes was posted here.

Benefit to Fedora

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

Scope

Proposal owners:
- Implement the new design (done)
- Get the changes reviewed and merged upstream (in progress)

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