Messaging Indicator (was: Notifications: uselessness of)

[Ted Gould]

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 22:45 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> 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:
> >> 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)?

That makes sense to me, but I'm not as sure about how all that works.
Perhaps we could discuss this with everyone at the next Ubuntu Desktop
meeting?  I think that'd probably be a good place to work out the
dependencies correctly.

		--Ted

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