Hi Peter-Alexander, you're right, and I agree it still is a regression looking at the --notification function alone. As far as I understand the reason for the change was the decision for an updated semantic. Notification now only means a bubble message, and is different from a status icon or window. Going with this might be more precise. But changing this without giving apps the chance to adopt and use a --trayicon option if they actually do need a continuous status indication one is really bad.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to zenity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/884011 Title: regression: lost ability to show continuous status with tray/appindicator icon Status in Zenity: New Status in “zenity” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The change in the "zenity --notification" behavior completely removed the functionality to display an unobtrusive, always visible tray icon from zenity. For clarity, the tray icon functionality should be made available with a proper "zenity --trayicon" feature. For backwards compatibility, the --notification option would have to continue to show an icon, but may be switched to just bring up a notification bubble for clarity, once a separate --trayicon feature is available. --- Ubuntu 11.10 zenity 3.2.0-0ubuntu1 In a script I use following line: exec 3> >(zenity --notification --window-icon="icon.svg" --listen --text="some text") so I can change the tray icon based on what the script does. What I expect to happen: "zenity --notification" should show an icon in the tray or appindicator. What happens instead: A "zenity --warning" style dialog window pops up. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/zenity/+bug/884011/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
