GNOME 3 and chat
Any GNOME 3 users out there have recommendations for handling chat programs and notifications?
With a few extensions, I've come to really enjoy GNOME 3, but the one experience that's still lousy is chat (XMPP or IRC). With Empathy, Pidgin, or Hexchat, I feel like the messaging menu doesn't work the same way that the old system tray style notifications used to work. It's so easy to miss notifications if you're not watching the screen. I find that I'm either compulsively checking the open applications, or more often I just simply don't use chat programs frequently any more because that compulsive checking is too distracting.
I'd love to be able to leave the programs open and have confidence that I'll see if there are messages waiting without having to check. Any suggestions for applications or extensions or ways of handling those notifications for XMPP / IRC in GNOME 3?
Christopher Allan Webber likes this.
Maybe have a look at Polari (gome IRC client)?
mray INACTIVE at 2015-11-24T19:54:54Z
Blaise Alleyne likes this.
got the same problem actually... tell us if that extension is usefull in the end then ;)
So far so good with these notifications!
It's a bit weird to have something flash that is not the place where the notifications are, but the blinking definitely helps to attract my attention to messages waiting (and to give me confidence if there aren't messages waiting, so I don't check compulsively).
Also, with that confidence, moving back to Empathy with integration with the messaging menu. The downside and the reason I'd stopped using it before is that I kept missing messages, but I think it's working now with the notifications extension.
installed too, seems great so far ... thanks :)