Links in libnotify bubbles not clickable

[David Futcher]

The links in the libnotify notification bubbles are not clickable. This means that whenever someone posts a link I want to see I have to go into the main gwibber window and open it from there. It would be much faster and easier if the links in libnotify bubbles were clickable.

[Ryan Paul (segphault)]

Libnotify bubbles use Pango markup for text formatting. Unfortunately, that means I can't add clickable links in the libnotify bubbles.

I plan to eventually replace libnotify with my own notification system that will hopefully allow me to address this problem and several others.

[Dominic Evans (oldmanuk)]

Ryan, I'm not sure if that is correct?

At least with notify-send (available in libnotify-bin) you can encode URLs in HTML <a href ...> format and get clickable links.

e.g.,
notify-send "Gwibber" "<a href=\"http://launchpad.net/gwibber\">http://launchpad.net/gwibber</a>"

You should be able to get clickable links in the same way.

I can take a look in a branch if you'd like?

[Dominic Evans (oldmanuk)]

p.s. I would strongly recommend against moving away from libnotify to a custom format. One of the big plusses of gwibber for me was that it used the built-in libnotify for notifications.

[Dominic Evans (oldmanuk)]

suggest re-evaluation of fixability

[Dominic Evans (oldmanuk)]

relevant section in notification spec

http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/0.9/x161.html#hyperlinks

[Dominic Evans (oldmanuk)]

added an example fix in ~oldman/gwibber/gwibber

[Ryan Paul (segphault)]

I've accepted Dominic's fix. Thanks!