Messaging Indicator (was: Notifications: uselessness of)

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Monday 02 March 2009 1:49:06 pm Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 13:11:22 -0500 Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> >On Monday 02 March 2009 12:01:34 pm Scott Kitterman wrote:
> >> Couldn't some kind of indicator about available updates go here so they 
> >aren't hidden from users for up to a week?
> >
> >Or so the KDE users know we need to switch to GNOME?  There's no indicator 
> >plasmoid yet, so Pidgin's functionality is rather broken in KDE right now.
> 
> Does it work better with the orginal libnotify instead of notify-osd?  I 
> suspect that any use of notify-osd by users of other Ubuntu flavors is 
> unlikely to end well.

With libnotify I still had the Show button. Discovering that not using a 
notification icon in the notification area makes Pidgin's buddylist invisible 
until I poke through ~/.purple/buddlist.xml and set it to always show an icon 
...yeah that wasn't fun.  Yes a bug is filed for that.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
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