What is the *right* way to use gnome-shell integrated chat?
- by stevejb
Please bear with me as I am still figuring out how to use gnome-shell. My question concerns how to use the integrated chat correctly. I have the following questions:
1) When people chat with me, it pops up as a notification on the hidden bar at the bottom of the screen, and then that chat stays there so I can access it later. How do I initiate a chat in this manner, without opening an empathy window? What I have been doing is
Hitting super key
Typing in the person's name, which brings up contacts
Initiate the chat using empathy
Immediately close the chat window
When the person responds, it comes through as a notification. I then proceed to interact with the chat this way.
2) What is the keyboard shortcut for bringing up the notifications bar? Ideally, I would like to have the following experience
Use some keyboard shortcut to bring up notifications
Begin typing the name of the notification that I wish to investigate, and have the matching work in a fuzzy manner, much like Ido mode's buffer switching matching in Emacs
When then right name is matched, I hit enter and then bring up the chat with that person as that popup notification.
Are these behaviours supported? If not, I would be happy to work on implementing them. I am an experienced programmer, but not familiar with gnome-shell. If someone would point me in the right direction in terms of if this behaviour is supported, or where in the gnome-shell framework would I add to to get this behaviour, I would really appreciate it.
Thanks!
