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FS#47376 - [notification-daemon] remove from optdepends

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Balló György (City-busz) - Monday, 14 December 2015, 21:26 GMT
Last edited by Balló György (City-busz) - Sunday, 22 January 2017, 19:01 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Angel Velasquez (angvp)
Thorsten Töpper (Atsutane)
Tom Gundersen (tomegun)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I think it's pointless to add notification-daemon as optional dependency to packages, because major desktop environments have an internal notification server, which cannot be replaced. Other notification servers may or may not have a D-Bus service file for activation. [1]

All applications should work even if notification server is unavailable on the system (if not, then report to upstream), so please remove notification-daemon from optdepends in the following packages:
- gajim
- ibamtray
- pidgin-libnotify
- pragha
- transmission-gtk
- udiskie
- wammu
- wicd-gtk

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_notifications#Notification_servers
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Closed by  Balló György (City-busz)
Sunday, 22 January 2017, 19:01 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  Implemented in some packages.
Comment by Sergej Pupykin (sergej) - Tuesday, 22 December 2015, 09:38 GMT
ibamtray updated
Comment by Thorsten Töpper (Atsutane) - Thursday, 24 December 2015, 12:20 GMT
I disagree. Not everyone uses a large desktop environment and as an optional dependency people using such a DE are not forced to install it.
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Thursday, 24 December 2015, 13:09 GMT
Installing notification-daemon does not ensure anything, because it needs to be autostarted manually. I think it would better to recommend users to read the wiki, then choose and configure a notification server implementation, if it's needed.

And all applications should be fully functional, if the notification server is unavailable. I think it's just an optional desktop feature.
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Sunday, 22 January 2017, 19:01 GMT
I'm closing this task. It looks like no more developers/TUs are interested in implementing it.

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