[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#631573: Bug#631573: plasma-widgets-workspace: Forces removal of xfce4-notifyd

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On sam., 2011-06-25 at 02:42 +0200, Sune Vuorela wrote: 
> reassign 631573 xfce4-notifyd
> thanks
> 
> On Saturday 25 June 2011 01:11:02 Bob Hauck wrote:
> > Package: plasma-widgets-workspace
> > Version: 4:4.6.4-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > This package provides notification-daemon.  So does xfce4-notifyd.  The
> > problem is that this package does not work in xfce4.  So there is no way
> > to get any on-screen notifications in xfce4 if you also have kde
> > installed.

I don't get it. You *want* plasma-widgets-workspace under Xfce (I don't
really think it would work, but maybe) or you just want notifications? 
> 
> plasma-widgets-workspace provides the interfaces as specified by the so-called 
> 'galago-spec', so I don't see anything wrong with having plasma-widgets-
> workspace provide it.
> 
> On the other hand, having xfce4-notifyd conflict with it is something else ...

Afair there's an issue with having multiple notification daemon
installed at once since they ship the same dbus service file. It might
have changed though, I'll try to look at this

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis