Clicking on Notifications isn’t Reliable

[amxmln]

Congratulations on releasing Odin! :blush: :tada: While using it on my laptop, I have noticed the following:

Prerequisites

• [X] I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates.

Describe the bug

Clicking on a notification-bubble as it pops up or in the notification centre isn’t reliably focussing the application and removing the application from the notification centre.

For example, when AppCentre sends the "Updates available" notification, clicking the bubble has an about 50% chance of not doing anything but closing the bubble. The bubble disappears, but sometimes still ends up in the notification centre. No window is opened / focussed.

Another example is Telegram Desktop (installed as a Flatpak from Flathub) with "Use native notifications" enabled. Clicking the notification when a new message arrives doesn't focus the window and the notification sometimes still shows in the notification centre. Clicking on the "Reply" action has worked reliably so far, however.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Wait until a couple notifications from different applications show up
2. Click on them as the show
3. Observe the inconsistent behaviour
4. Repeat, since it doesn’t reliably fail

Expected behavior

I would expect that clicking on a notification bubble (whether when it pops up on screen, or within the notification centre) to do the following every time:

• Focus / open the application that sent the notification
• Switch to the relevant section within the application if possible (i.e. the Updates pane in AppCenter, or the message thread with the new message in Telegram)
• Close the notification and prevent it from appearing in the notification centre

Platform Information

• [ ] I'm using the latest version from git that I've manually compiled
• [X] I'm using the latest released stable version

Thank you for your time and hard work!

[karpovv-boris]

I have similar problem with Google Chrome (installed as .deb package) with "Send to your device" feature.

The link opens in the browser when I click on the bubble but nothing is happening when I click on the notification in the Notification center. In both cases notification is goes away.

Demo


[oktayacikalin]

Looks like I've the same issue here in Odin. I've also the exact same behavior with Google Chrome.

[joeljosedev]

I have the same issue in elementary OS 6.1 with AppCenter.