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

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1078775

Title:
  missing dependencies when installing packages in precise

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

Bug description:
  Situation: I'm trying to install selective packages to Ubuntu Mini
  Remix 12.04 Precise and build up an Xfce remix.

  After I had installed  notify-osd  and  libnotify-bin  in Precise, I
  tried sending test notification via Terminal. But nothing appears on
  Desktop and no error was displayed in Terminal. And I'm sure there is
  *no* broken packages either.

  Few days had passed and I thought of trying to install other
  application which relies on notify-osd. So I installed  pidgin  and
  pidgin-libnotify  packages. To my surprise, when I sent test
  notification via Terminal again, the notification pops up as it
  should!

  Things works *after* I had installed  pidgin  and  pidgin-libnotify
  --This is for sure. Among the dependencies of  pidgin-libnotify, I
  found that these packages--  libgtk2.0-0, libindicate-gtk3,
  libindicate5  --which are *not* dependencies of notify-osd (or
  libnotify4), might have fixed the notification pop-up to work as it
  should.

  To reproduce this issue, do as following:

  1.   apt-get install notify-osd libnotify-bin
  2.   notify-send -i system "test notification" "you can see means it works"
        // You will not see any notification pop-up in this step
  3.   apt-get install pidgin pidgin-libnotify
  4.  repeat step 2
        // You can see the notification pop-up now

  Hope this matter is clarified.

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