Re: Please include into 2.22: libnotify, notification daemon

["Sanford Armstrong" <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

On 9/26/07, Sanford Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com> wrote:
> On 9/26/07, Christian Hammond <chipx86 chipx86 com> wrote:
> > notification-daemon and libnotify are on every distro shipping GNOME, to my
> > knowledge. Isn't it time to finally mark this as a blessed dependency? More
> > and more apps are using this and it's become a de facto standard not only in
> > GNOME but in practically anything not KDE-based, GTK+ or otherwise. It's
> > only doing harm by preventing it from becoming a dependency, as it requires
> > more work on the part of the developers to develop, test and support
> > conditional code.
>
> Hear hear!  :-)  We're investigating using libnotify for some new
> functionality in Tomboy,
<snip>
> +1 for libnotify as a blessed dependency.

>From the Tomboy perspective, I actually meant +1 on including a
notification daemon.  Tomboy would use notify-sharp (bundling when
necessary) instead of libnotify.

Personally, though, I still think libnotify would be very useful
throughout GNOME and should be a blessed dependency.

Cheers,
Sandy