mac_v wrote: > From: David Barth <[email protected]> > To: Steve Dodier <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, 9 September, 2009 1:59:44 PM > Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Notification consistency > > Steve Dodier wrote: > >> +1 too, but it'll require Mozilla to natively support libnotify for their >> Linux client. I'm actually surprised it's still not the case... >> >> > Mozilla has support for libnotify in their trunk branch, but they don't > enable that build option by default. Now that the protocol has been > standardized and approved by both Gnome and KDE, it would make sense for > them to reconsider using that feature by default. > > David > > > ^ This seems to have changed , > Quoting Alexander Sack : <asac> notify-osd in particular was explicitly kept > broken upstream because they see our way as a regression... > > I'v also tried to get a patch into the ubufox for this , but we are past > feature freeze. > asac's reply : too late for this cycle. features need to be carefully > selected and after UDS discussion. we also need to talk to mozilla etc. > > So i guess we missed the chance for karmic.... :( > It is was not on the table for Karmic, that is, Mozilla had reservations last year about the non-interactivity of n-osd notifications and I think they prefer to see how the rest of the community reacts to our change before reconsidering a switch.
I think what we've shown for now 2 releases, is that the non-interactivity of that kind of notification is well received, and actually becomes a desirable feature for users. The standardization work that we did with other projects (on the xdg list) should also help, along with the fact that now third-parties can really rely on a server capability to adapt their behavior. Last Mozilla not only uses Growl on the Mac but they also research similar notification mechanisms (http://www.toolness.com/wp/?p=463) so I hope they will reconsider libnotify support in the future. David
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