The ebuild for x11-libs/libnotify-0.4.5 has the following PDEPEND PDEPEND="|| ( x11-misc/notification-daemon xfce-extra/xfce4-notifyd )" The KDE desktop uses kde-base/knotify to display notifications, not notification-daemon or xfce4-notifyd, so it would be nice if the PDEPEND could be extended to allow knotify as an alternative to avoid pulling in unnecessary dependencies: PDEPEND="|| ( x11-misc/notification-daemon xfce-extra/xfce4-notifyd kde-base/knotify )" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
If you run "notify-send test" in KDE, does the "test" message appear inside KDE with no notification-daemon installed ? If (and only if) that works, this bug is valid... kde@ maintainers can fix the dep then, if it works.
... because normally you need the /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service file installed, and I don't think knotify installs it
(In reply to comment #1) > If you run "notify-send test" in KDE, does the "test" message appear inside KDE > with no notification-daemon installed ? > > If (and only if) that works, this bug is valid... kde@ maintainers can fix the > dep then, if it works. I ran "emerge -C notification-daemon" and rebooted to get rid of anything lurking in any dbus-daemon's memory. Then, running "notify-send test" in KDE still results in the notification message being displayed by the KDE system tray when "Application notifications" are enabled in the KDE system tray settings.
... however, kde-base/knotify isn't the correct package for it to PDEPEND on, as application notifications are still displayed by the KDE system tray when this package is non installed. Hopefully, the KDE maintainers can determine which package it _really_ should PDEPEND on (perhaps it's kde-base/ksystraycmd but I don't really know!).
Just kdelibs is sufficient as org.freedesktop.Notifications interface is implemented there. Still you need something that actually displays those notifications (former libknotificationitem, now in kdelibs, I suppose works just as dispatcher). So something that listens to and displays *KDE* notifications is needed. And I'm only afraid plasma-workspace is the one we have.
*** Bug 346319 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
i'm reassigning the bug to freedesktop, i'll let them decide, IMO it isn't worth it
a similar bug concerning x11-wm/awesome (bug #342259) was reported much later than this one and has already been dealt with, why is there a reason for not dealing with this bug?
if there are so many notification agents, we might be better off switching to a virtual. @fdo, what do you think ?
+*libnotify-0.7.1 (24 Jan 2011) +*libnotify-0.5.2 (24 Jan 2011) + + 24 Jan 2011; Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org> libnotify-0.4.5.ebuild, + +libnotify-0.5.2.ebuild, +libnotify-0.7.1.ebuild, + +files/libnotify-0.7.1-gtk3-tests.patch: + Version bump. 0.5 for last of gtk+:2 only release and 0.7 for testing API + breakages, bug #340501. Add knotify to PDEPEND, bug #323593. Added. Thanks for reporting.
