On Oct 12, 2013, at 2:50 PM, Philip Chee <philip.c...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/10/2013 09:14, Marco wrote:
> 
>> It's not entirely clear to me why libnotify support was removed, the 
>> author of the patch stated:
>> "I removed Growl support because it does not support features needed to 
>> implement the spec. I also removed libnotify support because I can't 
>> find documentation about all the capabilities, so it's possible that 
>> libnotify could work but I just can't find it in the documentation."
> 
> Um, what? libnotify was removed because the developer was too lazy to
> google for the docs? Doesn't libnotify have a forum or mailing list?
> Couldn't he/she/it have asked there?
> 

Uhm, with my not-so-awesome-but-usually-sufficient Google skills I found the 
docs[1] within five minutes. I don't know since when these docs are available, 
though.

While reading through these docs, also the ones from Apple[2], I don't see 
incompatibilities with the spec[3] that can not be dealt with with a unified 
implementation ('tags' would have to be implemented at a higher level, for 
example).

As this functionality was apparently needed for FirefoxOS certification[4], I 
can see and understand why this was rushed to the tree. However, I hope that 
William Chen has the time now to work on the follow-ups that need to happen 
(insert IMHO if needed).

I hope we are able to fix these regressions soon!

Best,

Mike.

[1] https://developer.gnome.org/libnotify/0.7/ 
[2] 
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Foundation/Reference/NSUserNotification_Class/Reference/Reference.html
 and 
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Foundation/Reference/NSUserNotificationCenter_Class/Reference/Reference.html
[3] http://notifications.spec.whatwg.org


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