On 03/15/2011 08:14 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:
On 15 March 2011 17:42, Adam Williamson<awilliam(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> AIUI, this means there won't be any notification area icon for update
> availability notification in gnome-packagekit for F15. So Xfce (and
> LXDE) may need to come up with an alternative arrangement. I'm not sure
> exactly what the libnotify support will result in, but this is
> definitely something to look at. I'm CCing Richard in case he can
> provide any additional details.
If XFCE and LXDE can support the persistent notifications extension to
notification-daemon then it work as well as it does in gnome-shell.
Otherwise, I think it makes sense for XFCE and LXDE to have their own
lightweight notification icon integration for PackageKit, much like
KDE has with KPackageKit. If that's something that's desired, grab me
on #PackageKit and I'll help somebody out with details. It's probably
a hundred or so lines of C, and I would even ship it in
gnome-packagekit if such a thing was contributed.
I hacked up a semi-working skeleton of this today (thanks Richard for
the tips) basically just for a refreshing break to do Something
Completely Different for a change, will probably send patch(es) once its
in presentable shape. For what little it does now (show up in the system
tray when updates come available, click to launch gpk-update-viewer to
do the heavy lifting) the ~100 lines of C was fairly accurate estimate :)
OTOH... I dunno whether the time would be better spent adding support
for the persistent notification extension to XFCE libsystray plugin
(whatever that would in practise, haven't looked at it yet). Thoughts?
- Panu -