Messaging Indicator (was: Notifications: uselessness of)

[Ted Gould]

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 19:43 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:23:51 -0600 Ted Gould <ted at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 18:00 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> >> 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?
> >
> >Sorry if I wasn't clear.  Pidgin now links to both libraries.  We made
> >no changes to libnotify that I'm aware of.  Most of the changes to
> >Pidgin's libnotify support were bug fixes and a couple formatting
> >changes.
> 
> Just to make sure I have this right ...  If libnotify is installed users 
> will, modulo bug fixes and the formatting changes, the traditional behavior?
> 
> If so that sounds like the best advice for Kubuntu users who also use 
> Pidgin for this cycle.

Yes, but it's not libnotify itself.  It's "pidgin-libnotify" which is a
plugin that links the two together.  The plugin will detect if the
notification daemon has things like actions or append features and use
them appropriately.

		--Ted

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