Description of problem: Missing firefox plugins cause gstreamer to pop-up an annoying notification window, which offers to install the plugin. While this behavior is welcome the first time, the pop-up requests recur incessantly, whenever gstreamer detects the absence of that plugin. After a half-dozen such notifications, the user may decide that gstreamer-plugins-good is more hassle than it's worth, and simply issue, as root "yum erase gstreamer-plugins-good". This curtails the annoying behavior, Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: remove all Adone plugins for firefox. Browse a webpage with (irritating and expensive advertisement requiring application/x-shockwave-flash. Steps to Reproduce: 1.firefox http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/ 2. 3. Actual results: gstreamer pops-up window offering to search for plugin. Offer is repeated remorselessly and can't be disabled without removing gstreamer-plugins-good. Expected results: gstreamer toolkit preferences should be able to stop pop-ups. Additional info: This behavior appears to be new in gstreamer-plugins-good.x86_64 0:0.10.13-1.fc10.
A day after I submitted bug 487415 I noticed other notification problems, apparently independent of the gstreamer-plugins-good. I reconfigured the notification-daemon, using gconf-editor, to place the annoying notifications in a less obtrusive location. So far the result has been no more pestering notifications.