hplip notifications do not integrate

[zwaardmeester]

HP Device Manager notifications do not integrate with the new Jaunty notification system. I have HPLIB from the repositories installed, which is version 3.9.2. The Device manager version is 15.0 with Qt4.

How to repeat: open the HP Device Manager (which is called "HPLIB Toolbox") and print something.

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

That looks like HP Device Manager is not using notifications following the galago spec (http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/0.9/index.html) at all. According to you remark it seems to be a Qt application using it's own notification bubble rendering system. This bug is therefore invalid and does not apply to notify-osd.

You need to contact the upstream developers of HP Device Manager and ask them to patch their application to work with notify-osd following our guidelines (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDevelopmentGuidelines, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDesignGuidelines ).

kampetter might know who's the upstream developer of this tool.

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

Bug https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/354451 filed against HPLIP indicates HPLIP not using a libnotify-based notification-system correctly. Thus notifications are no passed via DBus according to the specs (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD, http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/0.9/). HPLIP needs to be patched to use libnotify.

From my investigations in the qt3 version of hplip only hplip/ui/systemtray.py needs to be changed. For that I attached a patch. It would be nice if someone could test/verify that, because I don't have any HP-hardware to properly use hplip with.

The qt4 version of hplip is using showMessage, which is a method of QSysTray. There are three occurances in hplip/ui4/systemtray.py and six occurances in hplip/ui4/devmgr5.py which have to be adapted to use libnotify. As a guide for what calls to use see the icon-summary-body.py example of https://edge.launchpad.net/notify-osd (notify-osd/examples/icon-summary-body.py). Or just take a look at the attached patch for the qt3 version of hplip.

[dwelch91 (dwelch91)]

I've added your patch to the Qt3 hp-systray code and a similar code change
to the Qt4 hp-systray. Both of these changes will be in HPLIP 3.9.6.

One question: I don't quite understand what code in ui4/devmgr5.py needs to
change for this feature?

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Mirco Müller <email address hidden>wrote:

> Bug https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/354451 filed against
> HPLIP indicates HPLIP not using a libnotify-based notification-system
> correctly. Thus notifications are no passed via DBus according to the
> specs (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD, http://www.galago-
> project.org/specs/notification/0.9/). HPLIP needs to be patched to use
> libnotify.
>
> >From my investigations in the qt3 version of hplip only
> hplip/ui/systemtray.py needs to be changed. For that I attached a patch.
> It would be nice if someone could test/verify that, because I don't have
> any HP-hardware to properly use hplip with.
>
> The qt4 version of hplip is using showMessage, which is a method of
> QSysTray. There are three occurances in hplip/ui4/systemtray.py and six
> occurances in hplip/ui4/devmgr5.py which have to be adapted to use
> libnotify. As a guide for what calls to use see the icon-summary-body.py
> example of https://edge.launchpad.net/notify-osd (notify-osd/examples
> /icon-summary-body.py). Or just take a look at the attached patch for
> the qt3 version of hplip.
>
>
> ** Attachment added: "patch for qt3-version of hplip to use libnotify"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26668579/use_libnotify_qt3.patch
>
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> hplip notifications do not integrate
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/373773
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[Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount)]

To be fixed in 3.9.6.