Bug 759053 - notifyd doesn't support text markup
Summary: notifyd doesn't support text markup
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xfce4-notifyd
Version: 17
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Christoph Wickert
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 770949 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-12-01 10:40 UTC by David Kovalsky
Modified: 2014-03-31 23:46 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-04-23 18:04:24 UTC
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Description David Kovalsky 2011-12-01 10:40:51 UTC
When yakuake starts in my XFCE session, I see
<html> (yakuake started text) </html>


I haven't seen the <html> tags in gnome in the past, so I'm guessing notify deamon in Gnome does support the markup. 


I'm not really sure if this is a feature or bug - and I'm not taking sides if sending HTML messages is a good idea either. If not supporting HTML syntax is a feature, I guess I'll switch this bug to yakuake to send plain text messages.

Comment 1 David Kovalsky 2011-12-01 10:43:06 UTC
xfce4-notifyd-0.2.2-1.fc16.x86_64
yakuake-2.9.8-3.fc16.x86_64

Comment 2 Christoph Wickert 2011-12-01 11:40:35 UTC
xfce4-notifyd *should* support markup and filter out elements it doesn't support (at least that'S what http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/0.9/x161.html says).

The question is if yakuake sends valid XML. Is there a way to get the complete message?

Comment 3 David Kovalsky 2011-12-01 12:59:26 UTC
Hmm, I looked into the code and see:

app/mainwindow.cpp (yakuake 2.9.8):

1182 void MainWindow::showStartupPopup()            
1183 {
1184     KAction* action = static_cast<KAction*>(actionCollection()->action("toggle-window-state"));
1185     QString shortcut(action->globalShortcut().toString());
1186     QString title(i18nc("@title:window", "<application>Yakuake</application> Notification"));
1187     QString message(i18nc("@info", "Application successfully started.<nl/>" "Press <shortcut>%1</shortcut> to use it ...", shortcut)); 

Since newline gets translated to </ br>, I guess it's a matter of what `message' does with the string. But I'm not a Developer and I know next to nothing about C++ :)

Comment 4 David Kovalsky 2011-12-19 02:17:53 UTC
So it's definitely not a matter of yakuake. Notifications from other apps (Audacious for example) exhibit the same behaviour - HTML tags printed instead of rich formatting.

Comment 5 Christoph Wickert 2011-12-30 12:50:20 UTC
*** Bug 770949 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Comment 7 David Kovalsky 2013-01-17 09:58:04 UTC
Still valid for F17, latest & greatest updates as of today
XFCE, Yakuake

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2013-04-23 16:34:42 UTC
xfce4-notifyd-0.2.3-1.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xfce4-notifyd-0.2.3-1.fc19

Comment 9 Christoph Wickert 2013-04-23 18:04:24 UTC
Actually this already works as expected in 0.2.2.

To test , try something like: 
$ notify-send Test "<u>underline</u> <i>italic</i> <b>bold</b>"

Tags not listed at http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/0.9/x161.htmlare not supported and should not be used: "notifications should never take advantage of tags that are not listed above."

So to me the fault is clearly on the client side, applications should not use these tags and. Something like <shortcut>%1</shortcut> is not even valid HTML.

I think that xfce4-notifyd should strip out everything it doesn't support, that's why I filed https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10027

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2013-04-29 03:23:59 UTC
xfce4-notifyd-0.2.3-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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