[PATCH] Detecting notification popup server capabilities

[Parker Coates]

2009/8/28 Aurélien Gâteau <aurelien.gateau at canonical.com>:
> Sebastian Trüg a écrit :
>> sounds like a weird solution to me. What are apps supposed to do in such a
>> case? Just not add actions? That can be handled on another level I suppose.
>
> Still, I think it's useful to let applications know whether actions are
> supported or not. This way they can switch to other means of
> interactions (the other means in Ubuntu being message indicators, which
> I am working on as well, see [1])

Can you give some real use cases? I'm having a hard time of thinking
of a situation where an app would need to know if the actions on its
notification where actually displayed? I'm not saying there aren't
such cases, but in my experience the such actions are generally a
convenience, not a vital part of the application work flow. In such
cases, if the user chooses to use a system missing this feature, then
they shouldn't be too surprised when they don't get actions.

Parker