Comment 3 for bug 349550

Hi There,

Just a comment on the accept/reject problem in Giver with the new
notification system in Jaunty. Logically the action to receive or reject a
file/folder should be via the systray icon or from within the actual
application window.

Darrin Ritter

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Ken VanDine <email address hidden>wrote:

> ** Changed in: notify-sharp (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: Cody Russell (bratsche) => Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)
>
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> notify-sharp inappropriately swallows all notification actions
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/349550
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> Status in “notify-sharp” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: giver
>
> Giver is currently using notifications to present the recipient of a
> transfer with an option to accept or deny a file.
>
> However, implementations like notify-osd do not let applications use
> notifications for such interactions, and instead encourage the use of better
> interaction mechanisms, like a dialog box or a morphing application window.
>
> Note: this bug started as #347081. It was triggered by a change in
> notify-sharp that silently omits actions in a notification request if the
> remote server does not support the capability.
>
> See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD#Giver and
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDevelopmentGuidelines#Avoiding%20actionsfor suggestions on how to fix giver.
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