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

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

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.


        Frederic