Messaging Indicator

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Sunday 08 March 2009 9:25:44 pm Cory K. wrote:
> Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:57:13 +0000 Ted Gould <ted at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > I'm not generally at those meetings, so I can't say if the right people 
> > would be there or not.  My thought is that if it's decided that 
> > notifications should be part of the 'standard' pidgin experience then the 
> > package should recommend the standard library for providing it.
> 
> As someone that manages a derivative (Ubuntu Studio) this is one change
> (though we are currently testing notify-osd) we don't want forced on us
> as a recommend. We already have mixed feedback from our users.

Scott's talking about having Pidgin recommend pidgin-libnotify so that Pidgin 
notifications can work in derivatives without needing notify-osd.  At least, I 
think that's how it works.

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