Foreword that I could have made clearer: I am not a maintainer for any distribution, I'm just a user trying to get your nice shinies working on my Gentoo box.
> While I have no specific issue with making it configurable, I'm curious why > there are other distributions that don't have libindicate. There is no > requirement on having the applet itself for the plugin to just indicate on > DBus. I think it just hasn't become as ubiquitous as libnotify yet so it hasn't been packaged. From my standpoint, I could not compile pidgin-libnotify patched because I didn't have the libindicate headers or libraries, so I made it work and I was pleased. That's the entirety of it. > Just to be more clear, we are planning on splitting apart the applet in the > library (they were put together more for convenience than any good reason) > into separate tarballs. This would be a similar model to the libnotify and notification-daemon/notify-osd I take it? I'd agree to that as well just from a coding structure standpoint. > In general, I don't mind, but I'd hate to see other distributions drop this > functionality for reasons that could be fixed in other ways. The splitting of the packages mentioned above would make leaving the dependency there a more appealing option. On the other hand having this as a compile option would make us users of the more configurable distributions that much happier. I apologize before I say this but if this patch gets downstreamed to Gentoo in some way, and there's a USE flag for libindicate, I'm probably one of the users to disable it :/. I'm just too used to my normal work flow. -- pidgin-libnotify has hard indicator-applet dependency https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/413210 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
