Yes! That is what I said above, the title text is perfect. I already opened a bug for dependant packages to provide an alternative text in the title[1]. Besides the overhead such a spec change would entail, I am afraid that since ATs would be the only consumers of the "alt_text", it would be misused and abused in the real world.
1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/notify-osd/+bug/334292 -- An "alt_text" hint should be introduced https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/334272 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Notify OSD Developers, which is subscribed to Notify OSD. Status in Canonical's Notification Display Agent: Confirmed Bug description: notify-osd introduces icon-only notifications. Since no text is supplied, there is no way of determining the non-visual meaning of these icons. Often, it could be derived from the "synchronous" hint (like in brightness and volume), but the text supplied by "synchronous" could be arbitrary, and there is no guarantee that the icon-only notification will supply the "synchronous" hint at all. Potentially, the alternative text could be determined from the supplied icon file name (assuming the file name has real meaning). But this is not always the case since direct pixbufs could be sent to notify-osd with no associated file name. In any case, the Bubble class does not currently store the file name after the icon is rendered to a pixbuf. Besides being hackish, and error prone, the two methods above do not provide a means of localization for the utilizing applications. That is why I propose the "alt_text" hint. For example: notify-send " " -i notification-audio-volume-medium -h int:value:75 -h string:synchronous:volume -h string:alt_text:Volume _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
