Package: xfce4-notifyd Version: 0.2.2-1 Severity: normal Hi,
there have been some recent changes in notification-daemon and the way it is started. It previously was started via dbus activation on-demand. This had the unpleasant side effect, that shipping different notification systems either had to conflict with each other or divert the dbus service file (or ship it under a different dbus service file name where it no longer was clear which service would be started then). In GNOME 3, the notification system is integrated into gnome-shell itself, which is komparable with how kdebase-workspace does it. As a consequence, the dbus service file was removed from notification-daemon, as this could otherwise lead to a race when gnome-shell is started [1]. In the GNOME 3 fallback or GNOME 2 case, we start notification-daemon via the session manager now. For GNOME 2, we ship a autostart file in gnome-session 2 in /usr/share/gnome/autostart. gnome-session 3 will start notification-daemon in the fallback case and we also ship a XDG autostart file, which should handle non-GNOME environments. It currently lists: OnlyShowIn=LXDE;OPENBOX;GNOME; AutostartCondition=GNOME3 unless-session gnome I.e. XFCE is explicitly excluded, as I assumed that for XFCE the preferred notification system is xfce4-notifyd. We have been discussing that on IRC for a while, and we came to the conclusion, that it should be up to the individual desktop environment to depend on its notification system of choice. The notification daemons should no longer be started via dbus activation and instead by the session manager, so we have a defined and reliabe behaviour. If you can agree with that, please update xfce4-notifyd accordingly and make the xfce4 metapackage depend/recommend xfce4-notifyd. I also think, that individual applications should not directly depend on notification-daemon directly. But this should be discussed / fixed independently from this bug. Cheers, Michael [1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/notification-daemon/commit/?id=1ad20d22098bc7718614a8a87744a2c22d5438d0 -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-486 Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages xfce4-notifyd depends on: ii libc6 2.13-18 ii libcairo2 1.10.2-6.1 ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.14-1 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.94-4 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.23.5-3 ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.5-4 ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.4-3 ii libx11-6 2:1.4.4-1 ii libxfce4ui-1-0 4.8.0-3 ii libxfce4util4 4.8.1-3 ii libxfconf-0-2 4.8.0-3 Versions of packages xfce4-notifyd recommends: ii libnotify-bin 0.7.3-2 xfce4-notifyd suggests no packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110902025729.5649.62309.report...@pluto.milchstrasse.xx
