Re: Update notifications?
On 08/10/2011 10:40 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
Am Mittwoch, den 10.08.2011, 12:56 -0600 schrieb Stephen John
Smoogen:
> Hmmm i think I needed to install the Xfce notify package for it to
> work
I guess you mean xfce4-notifyd, but this does not work anyway. The
problem is that gpk-update-icon only produces persistend notifications
that onle work in gnome-shell. They don't work with notification-deamon
either, so GNOME fallback mode lacks update notifcations, too.
More info on this is in this thread of March this year:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/xfce/2011-March/000458.html
The only solutions I am aware of:
1. Patch the xfce4-smartpm-plugin for xfce4-panel 4.8
2. Package Panu's update icon (see above list thread)
2) would require turning the code into something more real-world
capable... and I never got around to do it as I realized I dont
particularly miss the update notifications.
And in fact, you do get notifications IF you're running
gnome-settings-daemon (ie have enabled "Launch GNOME services on
startup" in session settings), but they're just regular notification
bubbles and not persistent. Also the update-check runs so infrequently
by default that I rarely get to see them as I tend to run 'yum update'
manually once a day anyway.
- Panu -