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

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
> 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.)

Ok, then I'll give the second release team approval.