Re: Empathy Hard code freeze exception request: Hard to accept incoming calls and file transfer (#645932)

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 19:08 +0200, Guillaume Desmottes wrote:
> Le 31/03/2011 15:42, Frederic Peters a écrit :
> > Guillaume Desmottes wrote:
> >
> >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645932#c18
> >>
> >> Atm it's very hard for users to notice incoming calls, file transfer,
> >> muc invitations, etc because the Shell blacklist all the notifications
> >> from Empathy. It should only ignore the chat ones (as they are replaced
> >> by the message tray) so I cooked 2 branches doing that:
> >>
> >> http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/cassidy/empathy;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/shell-notif-645932
> >> http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/cassidy/gnome-shell;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/empathy-notif-645932
> >>
> >>
> >> I still have to ask Owen before considering merging the shell branch,
> >> but we could already merge the Empathy one.
> >> Even if the Shell patch is not merged for 3.0, merging the Empathy
> >> patches shouldn't hurt and will ensure that Empathy 3.0 is ready.
> >>
> >> Jonny already reviewed the patches.
> > They look fine; let's wait a bit for an answer from Owen on the shell
> > part.
> 
> Dan reviewed and tested the Shell patch as well, so all we need now is 
> Owen and the RT approval.
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645932

I'm good with the gnome-shell patch. (It has the side-effect of causing
duplicate notifications with Empathy without these patches, but I'm much
more concerned about GNOME 3 working well as a unit rather than as
mismatched component versions.)

- Owen