Messaging Indicator

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Mon Mar 9 06:35:41 GMT 2009


On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 22:07:41 -0400 Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>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.
>
Yes.  That's exactly the question I'm trying to make sure we have properly 
sorted out.

Thanks,

Scott K



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