[Bug 501393] Re: Integrate Firefox notifications with notify-osd bling

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

I think this bug report is invalid.

The Mozilla bug report linked to this one is about libnotify integration
in general, not about Notify OSD integration in particular. As described
in the 2009-05-03 comment, "This falls back to XUL if the server doesn't
support actions." So Firefox asks the notification server whether it
allows interactive notifications. Notify OSD says "Thanks for asking,
but no, I don't". Firefox then goes "Okay then", and uses its own
interactive notification system instead.

This is all as it should be. If Firefox didn't check with the
notification server first, every completed download would produce an
ugly alert box from Notify OSD. If Firefox sent a non-interactive
notification to Notify OSD, it would be quite frustrating because it
wouldn't let you open the downloaded file. And if Notify OSD allowed
interactive notifications in general, we'd be causing precisely the kind
of accidents that we created Notify OSD to avoid.

Now, it would be nice if Firefox's download-complete notifications were
more elegant and less error-prone than they are. One way to do this
(which I suggested to the Firefox lead developer a year ago) would be
for the existing Downloads window to request attention. Another way
would be for the notifications to be embedded in the browser window, as
they are in Chromium. Neither of those are anything to do with Notify
OSD; it's not the right tool for the job.

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Integrate Firefox notifications with notify-osd bling
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