banshee does not honour "actions" capability of notification daemon (was: annoying messages with banshee)

oops. thought this was about "song" notifications being displayed too late (async) and wondered whether that should be done synchronous instead (<= mpt).

In fact this is just an application bug not honouring actions capabilities of notification daemon. Since you said banshee, I am moving it there and tagging dxteam

It looks to me like Banshee *is* aware of the notifications and displaying a window to the user instead of popping up a useless notification using the notifications system. The notification is there to enable the user to quickly skip the current item, as well as notify them what the current item *is*.

If, like me, you *want* the old system in your session you can:

  killall notify-osd
  /usr/lib/notification-daemon/notification-daemon & disown

And you'll be running the trusty and more functional older utility instead. Get that into your GNOME/desktop environment autostart properties somehow or another in a script or whatever, and you're set.

Oh, nevermind. notify-osd comes back to life periodically or something. sudo apt-get --purge remove the thing.

And would someone *please* remove notify-osd from the Ubuntu Desktop metapackage. That's just insane. Install it by default if you please, but do NOT make my system depend on it, please and thank you.

On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 08:36 +0000, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> Oh, nevermind. notify-osd comes back to life periodically or something.
> sudo apt-get --purge remove the thing.
>
I think you'd probably want to modify one of the D-Bus files. I know
notification-daemon is auto-started by one of those files
-- /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service to
be exact. By modifying that file to start notification-daemon instead of
notify-osd I think you could get back the old behaviour.

> And would someone *please* remove notify-osd from the Ubuntu Desktop
> metapackage. That's just insane. Install it by default if you please,
> but do NOT make my system depend on it, please and thank you.
Perhaps it would be better to have it in recommends rather than depends.
Or maybe make them both provide a metapackage, and then allow you to
choose which one you want through some debconf magic or whatever.

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Chow Loong Jin