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[David Barth <david.barth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

mac_v wrote:
> From: David Barth <david.barth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Steve Dodier <sidnioulz@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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