[PATCH] Allow the program to explicitly hide a notification

[Dirk Hohndel]

> On Mar 3, 2016, at 8:12 AM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 03 March 2016 06:19:19 Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>> AH, right, I forgot to post about that problem.
>> 
>> So for me the magic notification attached to the action button didn't seem
>> to work - or more precisely, I couldn't figure out how to access it from a
>> page that didn't have it's own action button. So I simply instantiated the
>> private component myself like this:
> 
> hmm, it's not supposed to be linked in any ways with the action button, except 
> that it pops up covering it
> 
> you should have a function "showPassiveNotification" available from anywhere 
> (since it's in Applicationwindow that's the root element, should be always in 
> context from anywhere)
> 
> I have to check, there may be a bug there: where is that you are trying to use 
> it? any branch/patch i can try over subsurface master to see if i can make it 
> work how the api is supposed (or, to reproduce the bug if it doesn't work)?

It's in master :-)

> the notification is a private component, so it's not supposed to be used like 
> that (in this case it works because subsurface includes the controls as a 
> subdirectory, but that may become not true anymore as deployment and build 
> system issues gets more ironed out)

I'm open to any other means of using the component.
As long as that gives me a way to actively hide the notification (which was
the patch that I sent) :-)

/D