1425737 - notifications are not integrating into the system notifications on Ubuntu

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1449331

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Notifications and Alerts, defect, P5)

Description

[pinus]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20171129230227



Actual results:

Firefox uses it's own notification pop-up instead of using the system notification system. This pop-up interferes regularly with other applications. On small notebook screens you get notifications of different apps concurrently, sometimes overlapping. Never in order to read them properly.
On multi screen setups I have notifications spread all over my screens, instead of having them at a central place. Not to mention to have a proper history.


Expected results:

Firefox should at least have the option to use the native notification system.

Comment 1

[Ben Kelly [:bkelly, not reviewing]]

We have native notifications on linux via libnotify since bug 858919.  I guess some distributions like arch disable that because libnotify is buggy.

What distribution are you on?

We also have native notifications on mac and android.  Bug 1155505 is adding native support for windows.

Comment 2

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

The issue is that we check if the OS environment supports notification buttons and if they don't we fallback to non-native notifications. I think Ubuntu was a distro that didn't support buttons but I could be wrong.

I thought this was a dupe but I can't find the original.

Comment 3

[rugk]

Actually new Ubuntu versions also use GNOME, so it is a dupe of bug 1449331, I think. And no, GNOME supports notification buttons (two, at least).