Ubuntu
giver package

Fails to work with notify-osd

Bug #405940 reported by Julian Andres Klode on 2009-07-28

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	giver (Debian)	Fix Released	Unknown	debbugs #539050
	giver (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: giver

I guess Ubuntu is especially affected by Debian Bug#539050 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=539050), as it uses notify-osd by default:

  Giver currently adds action buttons to the notification windows, even if
  the server does not support it. This breaks giver with e.g. notify-osd,
  which is currently in NEW.

Quoting Desktop Notifications Specification, Section 3[1]:

    If a client requires a response from a passive popup, it should be
    coded such that a non-focus-stealing message box can be used in the
    case that the notification server does not support this feature.

[1] e.g. http://people.canonical.com/~agateau/notifications-0.10/spec/ar01s03.html