Messaging Indicator (was: Notifications: uselessness of)

[Scott Kitterman]

On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:53:54 -0600 Ted Gould <ted at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 13:49 -0500, 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?
>
>No, it actually provides a new interface libindicate.  Unfortunately
>it's tied to dbus-glib right now as we didn't have a KDE developer to
>work on the QT integration.  One started today!  (I'm very excited)
>
>One of the goals of this interface is to provide an easy way for KDE
>applications to work on GNOME and vice versa while still providing this
>type of functionality.  I really hate that people are forced to choose a
>set of programs based on their desktop to avoid loosing functionality of
>their favorites.  I hope that we're on a path to users choosing the best
>application independent of the desktop they like.
>
>Anyway, sadly not today, but hopefully soon we'll have some KDE support.
>Of course that won't make the release, but we'll start looking at
>putting it in a PPA for people who are interested as it gets usable.
>
I'm a bit suprised.  If Pidgin doesn't work correctly with libnotify, how 
is the (sorry, I can't recall pittli's fancy word for it) vanilla session 
supposed to work?

Scott K