Messaging Indicator (was: Notifications: uselessness of)

[Scott Kitterman]

On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:59:42 -0600 Ted Gould <ted at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>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.
>
Currently this package is neither recommended nor suggested by pidgin.  It 
seems to me this should at least be a suggests and probably a recommends 
(it's seeded in ubuntu-desktop, but it seems like something pidgin users 
from other flavors would want)?

Scott K