Comment 10 for bug 328606

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Chow Loong Jin (hyperair) wrote : Re: [Bug 328606] Re: Liferea shouldn't include actions if notification server doesn't accept them

On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 18:37 +0000, Ted Gould wrote:
> Checking capabilities requires a round trip on DBus. Which could be
> delayed by the notification daemon being busy. It definitely will be if
> everyone check capabilities all the time. For the number of times that
> people change notification daemons, I think it's better to check once.
>
> The correct way to implement it would be to attach the name owner and
> then handle the case where the name owner is destroyed as it drops off
> the bus. But, those patches would get rather large. Again, I think
> this is a pretty minor usecase.
>
By "busy" you mean that it has hung, don't you? I highly doubt you could
spam notify-osd (or any other notification daemon) enough to make it
hang.
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Chow Loong Jin