Re: [Banshee-List] Notification error

[Alexander Kojevnikov <alexander kojevnikov com>]

2009/10/29 Christopher James Halse Rogers > This is due to NotifyOSD
stripping newlines (and other formatting) from
> notifications.  Banshee is sending
> "Jesus Christ\n<i>Pose Soundgarden</i>" expecting it to be rendered as
> """
> Jesus Christ
> /Pose Soundgarden/
> """
> but NotifyOSD strips the newline & formatting, so you see
> """
> Jesus Christ Pose Soundgarden
> """.
>
> It's worth a bug, but I'm not sure what the best way to resolve it would
> be.  Special-casing for notifyosd seems pretty ugly (particularly since
> you really are special-casing for notifyosd - you can't simply check for
> the "body-markup" capability[1]), and I'd expect resistance to using
> only the lowest-common-denominator capabilities everywhere.
>
> It's probably also worth a bug against the Ubuntu package; we could
> easily patch in a "by" rather than "\n", which would hide the problem
> for (I presume) almost all users of notifyosd.
>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD#sanitizing

Another alternative is using the patch from
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565453