Open relevant tab when clicking on a task finished notification

[elementaryBot]

I had two tabs open, with a process running in tab two. When it finished, I received a notification (sweet!) but clicking the tab showed me Terminal with the first tab active, not the second one (not so sweet).

Ideally, whichever tab emitted the notification should be the active tab if a notification is clicked upon.

Launchpad Details: #LP1642970 Ruppal Singh - 2016-11-18 14:08:49 +0000

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[igordsm]

I'm working on this. I have a working prototype and will send a PR later when I finish cleaning the code.

[jeremypw]

@igordsm You can always open a draft PR while your working on it for better visibilty :smile:

[janxkoci]

I think this used to work, not long ago (maybe OS6?), but nowadays clicking the notification will instead do one of these two actions:

• focus leftmost tab with Home directory open, or
• create and focus a new tab with Home directory, if it didn't exist.

This is even if my command was actually running in different tab in different directory. Clicking the notification always goes Home.

[jeremypw]

Worth looking at this again now some systemic issues with the notification handling are fixed.

[janxkoci]

focus leftmost tab with Home directory open

I realized my wording had some untested assumption, so I tested it and it still holds - the above statement is even true if I open two tabs with Home directory and run e.g. sleep 10 in the second one. Clicking the notification will focus the leftmost Home tab no matter if the other Home tab running the command was focused or not.