[Bug 395155] Re: Too long and unhelpful notification for ".local" domains

[Jesse Glick]

I am a programmer and I have only the foggiest notion of what Avahi is
or what it is there for, yet I continually receive this irritating
warning popup about something broken that I was not trying to use to
begin with. #327362 is the bug I found years ago. I just want this
notification to go away and stay away unless and until I am using some
application which is actually impaired.

Possibly also related: #80900, #1441008, #1082858, etc.

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Title:
  Too long and unhelpful notification for ".local" domains

Status in avahi package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: avahi-daemon

  When I connect to my home router, I get a notification about avahi
  being unable to use a ".local" domain. This bug is about fixing the
  message so that it is clearer and shorter. I was instructed to report
  such a bug on the ayatana mailing list, so perhaps a bit of discussion
  with them may be useful if the problem is unclear.

  The current message, at least, its Italian translation that I see
  every day, is definitely too long, I had to see it a tenth of times to
  be able to read the whole of it in the short delay of a notification.
  Moreover, even if I think I can be considered an expert in using
  linux, I did not understand at all the meaning of the message, and I
  had to google for it just to get what the point is. The topic is a bit
  technical for the average user. Even if knowing that avahi is "a dns
  service for the local network" I still have no clue of what it is
  actually used for, so I do not know what are the consequences of the
  notification (e.g. will my printer work, and this thing is connected
  with apple perhaps, so will my ipod work - if I had one :)).

  A short message like "The avahi service is disabled, look here for
  more info" would be good, but links can't be put in the notification.
  So I personally can't propose a good solution. Perhaps the message
  should not be shown at all, but rather it should be "embedded" in
  applications when they try to use avahi and fail (e.g. "avahi is
  disabled because your network has a .local domain, click here to know
  more", which is possible inside of an application.

  In any case, the current message is too long to be read; this is the
  easily understandable part of this bug.

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