transmission popups instead of libindicate

[Fernando Miguel]

Binary package hint: transmission

transmission does not use indicator-applet when it finishes a download

 apt-cache policy transmission-gtk
transmission-gtk:
  Installed: 1.42-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.42-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.42-0ubuntu1 0
        500 ftp://darkstar.ist.utl.pt jaunty/main Packages
        500 ftp://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ apt-cache policy libindicate0
libindicate0:
  Installed: 0.1.1-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.1.1-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.1.1-0ubuntu2 0
        500 ftp://darkstar.ist.utl.pt jaunty/main Packages
        500 ftp://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: transmission None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/transmission.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: transmission
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-8-generic x86_64

[Ciarán Mooney (ciaran-mooney)]

Hi,

Thanks for reporting this. However it is a feature request not a bug.

Ciarán

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

Hi Ciaran.
According to Mark (http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/265), we should file bugs (even if wish bugs)

"There are at least 35 apps that need tweaking, and there may well be others! If you find an app that isn’t using notifications elegantly, please add it to the notification design guidelines page, and if you file a bug on the package, please tag it “notifications” so we can track these issues in a single consistent way."

[Ciarán Mooney (ciaran-mooney)]

Hi,

Yes it's fine that it has been reported. I merely posted that in the hope that someone else could change the importance to "wishlist".

Thanks for pointing out the need for change.

Ciarán

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

This related to #334252, which contains a patch to libtransmission's existing code that prevents the popups. That code is slated for 1.51, which will be out soon.

I'm not marking this as a duplicate, though, since it also brings up the point of using libindicate. I don't see much documentation for it and am not running the betas, but if someone wants to include a patch that tests for libindicate's pkg-config in configure.ac, and then uses that instead of libnotify iff libindicate is present, I'd use that patch upstream.

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

On Thursday 26 February 2009 02:06:08 charles wrote:
> I don't see much documentation

https://launchpad.net/notify-osd
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDesignGuidelines

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[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

Transmission probably wouldn't be appropriate for using libindicate. The message indicator applet is designed for displaying messages, defined as human to human interactive.

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD/#Transmission:

> "When a download finishes, a notification bubble appears with an “Open Folder” button, and an “Open File” button if only one file was downloaded.
>
> Transmission should instead follow the same approach as for Firefox. That is, a notification bubble should not appear, the main window should open unfocused (if it is not open already), the completed download should be selected in the list, and the window should request attention.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDesignGuidelines

> When a notification is not time-critical, and there is a relevant window to display it in, present the notification as a banner or other text in that window.

How does one do that? Is there existing code in another project that already does something like this?