Update notification changes for F15

[Panu Matilainen]

On 03/15/2011 08:14 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 15 March 2011 17:42, Adam Williamson<awilliam at 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 -