Notify-OSD should advertise "truncation" capability

I'd prefer the capability to be "truncation". Less dash, less string.

notify-osd (rev. 219) now advertises its capability to be able to truncate summary- and body-text as "truncation".

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 09:10 +0000, Mirco Müller wrote:
> notify-osd (rev. 219) now advertises its capability to be able to
> truncate summary- and body-text as "truncation".

Supported in pidgin-libnotify as soon as upload happens:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337752

I've added this to the spec <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD?action=diff&rev2=72&rev1=71>, but I don't think it's a good idea. Even if a client wants to cater for poorly-presented servers by handling truncation itself, *how much* it needs to truncate is dependent on the particular notification server. For example, a notification server designed specifically for mobile phones would have notifications much smaller than those displayed by notification-daemon, so they would need to be truncated much more.

Therefore, I think clients that want to bother handling truncation themselves (such as pidgin-libnotify) should use GetServerInformation to target specific servers (e.g. "if notification-daemon, truncate to X characters"), rather than assuming they'll all be the same size.

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 15:15 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> Therefore, I think clients that want to bother handling truncation
> themselves (such as pidgin-libnotify) should use GetServerInformation to
> target specific servers (e.g. "if notification-daemon, truncate to X
> characters"), rather than assuming they'll all be the same size.

I imagine that this will only end up a backwards compatibility mode for
the current instance of notification-daemon. I believe that all
notification server implementations will start advertising this ability
for the reasons you stated. If there are going to be sets of
notification servers it would be nearly impossible for apps to keep up.

This bug was fixed in the package notify-osd - 0.9ubuntu2

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notify-osd (0.9ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Merge bug fixes from trunk (r219):
    - Added max. limit of 10 lines for message-body text.
    - 3-line wrapping for summary text.
    - capability "truncation" now advertised to clients (LP: #337389)
    - non-composite mouse-hover effect now fully blanks (LP: #336108)
    - disable markup-filter if parsing fails (LP: #331019)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:47:24 +0100