Bug 279782

Summary:	virtual/notification-daemon is necessary
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	MATSUU Takuto (RETIRED) <matsuu>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	MATSUU Takuto (RETIRED) <matsuu>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	dev-zero, freedesktop-bugs, mobile+disabled, xfce
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	virtual/notification-daemon-0.ebuild

Description MATSUU Takuto (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-07-31 11:09:33 UTC

There are some imprementations for notification-dameon. 
They conflict each other and interchangeable.
I suggest to provide virtual/notification-daemon.

- x11-misc/notification-daemon
- x11-misc/notification-daemon-xfce
- x11-misc/xfce4-notifyd
- notify-osd(in my overlay[1])

depends on notification-daemon:
- x11-libs/libnotify
- net-wireless/blueman

[1] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=dev/matsuu.git;a=tree;f=x11-misc/notify-osd

Comment 1 MATSUU Takuto (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-07-31 11:10:19 UTC

Created attachment 199728 [details]
virtual/notification-daemon-0.ebuild

Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-07-31 11:31:11 UTC

Seems totally useless as libnotify is the "virtual" already.

PDEPEND="|| ( x11-misc/notification-daemon
                x11-misc/notification-daemon-xfce
                x11-misc/xfce4-notifyd )"

Just add your daemon in.

Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-07-31 11:39:38 UTC

And even if your app doesn't use the library itself, there's:

x11-libs/libnotify (/usr/bin/notify-send)

It's pretty hard for apps to send anything to notification daemons without notify-send, command, or functions