Why xfce4-notifyd?

[Rex Dieter]

Tom Horsley wrote:

> On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:08:09 -0500
> Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>> firefox is simply using the xdg notification spec, and xfce4-notifyd is
>> one
>> implementation providing that.  gnome and kde each have their own as
>> well.
> 
> I wonder where it finds xfce in preference to gnome. I am running the
> gnome-settings-daemon which a lot of other random stuff goes through.

repoquery --whatprovides desktop-notification-daemon
=>
notification-daemon
xfce4-notifyd
kdebase-runtime

Now, how yum choses a particular provider follows this:
http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/CompareProviders

The cliff's notes version of that is generally which candidate requires the 
least extra dependencies.  If all things are equal, chose the one with the 
shortest name.

-- Rex