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

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Guillaume Desmottes <gdesmott gnome org> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> 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.
>

It seems better to me to land these things together; ie lets wait to
see if the shell team considers taking this for 3.0. If not, we can
land all three for 3.0.x