Xfce notifications need hyperlink support <a href="">

[Or Schiro]

Dear all,

Just observed that Xfce doesn't support hyperlinks in notifications (yet).

Something we can add for the 18.04 release?

Please see my attached example.

Thank you!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: xfce4-notifyd 0.4.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Thu Nov 30 14:32:33 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-11-29 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20171129)
SourcePackage: xfce4-notifyd
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Alex Curtui (alexcurtui)]

I've waited for ages to finally have native notifications from Chrome, and now they're horrible because of the hyperlinks not being treated well.

[Or Schiro (orschiro)]

I agree. They are very hard to read that way. :-(

[Alex Curtui (alexcurtui)]

Someone discussed about this issue on the Chromium bugs list, and thinking that it might be a Chromium issue, I raised the problem again.

It appears to be an issue with the daemon itself.

Here's the thread: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=676220#c103

[Or Schiro (orschiro)]

I confirm this observation. I never saw this issue in Ubuntu main edition that uses the GNOME daemon.

[Alex Curtui (alexcurtui)]

The bug is also tracked on the xfce bugtracker: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14073

[Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding)]

Support for this feature was added in version 0.4.2, but the URL parser still needs some improvement (work in progress).