Messaging Indicator

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:10:08 +0100 Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> 
wrote:
>Chow Loong Jin [2009-03-09 21:32 +0800]:
>> If this is such an issue on non-GNOME DEs, how about making
>> ubuntu-desktop recommend pidgin-libnotify? 
>
>It does already. That's in fact what keeps it in main and on the
>Ubuntu CDs. :-)
>
>$ apt-cache rdepends pidgin-libnotify
>pidgin-libnotify
>Reverse Depends:
>  ubuntu-desktop
>
Which brings us back to my original question: If it's been decided that the 
appropriate default configuration for pidgin is to use notifications (and 
it seems it has) then shouldn't the package just recommend it directly so 
there will be notifications (of whatever type) independent ofthe installed 
desktop?

Scott K