Re: [Evolution] Mail notification for 2.6

[Scott Anderson <ee_in_co yahoo com>]

--- Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 05:25 +0200, guenther wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 22:03 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 01:37 +0200, guenther wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 08:15 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 15:30 -0700, Scott Anderson wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > > > > I posted this a while ago on this list.
> > > > >
> > > > > You can get mail-notification to work with a simple patch if you're
> > > > > happy to compile it from source.  I have it working with 2.6 quite
> > > > > nicely.
> > > >
> > > > Updating and fixing this is the distros duty, IMHO.
> > >
> > > Why?
> >
> > Because that's what distros do -- providing a working set of apps. :)
> >
> > The original post mentioned mail-notification working with Evo 2.4,
> > which changed when upgrading Evo to 2.6. Caring about such issues is one
> > of the core duties of a distro. If they are going to update any app or
> > library, they absolutely need to make sure that any app that depends on
> > it still works afterwards.
> >
> > (In this special case though we should not forget that Evo 2.6 is in
> > Debian testing/unstable only. Whoever opts to use a non-stable branch
> > must expect possible breakage anytime.)
>
> Hmmm.  I was under the impression that mail-notification broke
> upstream (Debian terminology, in this case, for you all).

My understanding is similar, but not certain.  I understood that mail-notification was using a
hack that required it to use low-level evolution function calls instead of the dbus-notification
layer.  And that was because the dbus-notification layer either did not exist or was not working. 
Now that it *is* working, is mail-notification going to use the dbus-notification layer (which
would solve the need for endless version-specific patches)?

But that is not a question really for this list, but to the mail-notification developers, to whom
I have already asked the same question.

Does anyone have any other program that does the same function?  That's really what I want to know
from this list.

Scott

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