Re: Proposed external dependency: libnotify

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 04:12 +0000, BJ�Lindqvist wrote:

> It is the daemon that drives the speech bubbles that are shown in the
> notification area on the gnome-panel. Christian explains:
> 
> "notification-daemon *requires* libsexy. It can't be made an optional
> dependency, as SexyUrlLabel, part of libsexy, is the only way of
> providing a block of text without decorations that can contain inline
> hyperlinks."
> 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2006-February/msg00062.html
> 
> It looks like thos: http://www.chipx86.com/w/images/b/b5/Sexy-url-label-1.png
> 

Then why not just copy this widget to the notification-daemon source
tree? It's probably just two files and the problem would be settled. At
some point this funtionality will be integrated into GTK+ and this
little hack can be removed then.


Sven