Ubuntu
epiphany-browser package

Desktop notifications not supported

Bug #1474910 reported by Sam Bull
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Bug Description

Epiphany doesn't support desktop notifications on current Ubuntu releases. This requires libwebkitgtk 2.8 with libnotify support. Currently Ubuntu appears to only ship with 2.4, so this package will need updating.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749792

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Sam Bull (dreamsorcerer) wrote :

Just saw that libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 in wily is 2.8.4, so maybe this is already fixed in wily. If not, it should be checked that epiphany is using this package and not another older version, and that the package was built with libnotify support.

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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote :

vivid shipped with webkit2gtk 2.6 (you seem to be confusing with webkit1)
epiphany in wily is built against webkit2gtk 2.8, in fact that is a hard dependency for 3.16.

Unfortuantely it is not possible to backport major releases to stable release of Ubuntu, so this can't be fixed in vivid or earlier

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Sam Bull (dreamsorcerer) wrote :

Just wanted to be sure that this was supported in wily. I wasn't expecting a backport. Thanks for the confirmation.

Changed in ubuntu-gnome:
status: New → Invalid
Changed in epiphany-browser (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote :

ok, feel free to reopen if it is still broken in Wily

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