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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Project changed: notify-osd => notify-osd (Ubuntu)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/334272

Title:
  An "alt_text" hint should be introduced

Status in “notify-osd” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

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

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