GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 650314
Notifications Contain Tags in Xubuntu
Last modified: 2011-06-27 12:48:33 UTC
Created attachment 187913 [details] A picture of the incorrectly formatted notifications Hi all. I've never filed a bug report before so bear with me. I'm running Xubuntu 11.04 with Banshee 2.0.0 on XFCE 4.8.0. The picture I attached should explain the problem pretty well. Basically, instead of saying: Break on Through by The Doors from The Doors My Xubuntu notifications say: Break on Through <span color="#919191" size="small">by</span>The Doors <span color="#919191" size="small">from</span>The Doors If more information is needed, be specific, preferably with specific commands; I'm too n00b to know where log files are and stuff.
I can confirm this bug under ArchLinux using Xfce as well. IIRC this bug was allready in the 1.8-series. The problem is, that the closing <span>-Tag isn't correct. There is ">\span>" instead of "</span>". I think this problem could be solved easily.
Well, I was hoping it would be as simple as a typo in the source, but I haven't found anything so far. If anyone else wants to look for clues, I think this would be the right place to start: http://git.gnome.org/browse/banshee/tree/src/Extensions/Banshee.NotificationArea/Banshee.NotificationArea/NotificationAreaService.cs#n499 Anyway, I'm confirming this, since the problem isn't limited to just one person.
Hello, i found out, that it is not a bug of banshee. I tried out the following command in the terminal: notify-send Test "<span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">test</span>" An this is what i receive in the notifaction-area: Test <span style="font-weight:bold;">test>/span> It seems to be a bug in libnotify or the notification daemon, which uses libnotify. Would be interessting, whether the problem is only under xfce, or under gnome or kde as well. fin swimmer
Thanks for testing this! I just ran the notify-send test on Ubuntu 11.04 with Gnome, and I didn't see any problems. It seems like this issue is specific to xfce/Xubuntu. Someone should probably make them aware of this (probably on Launchpad somewhere?). Anyway, I'm closing the report here, as this doesn't seem to be our bug. Thanks everyone for the report and the testing.
As my duty as OP, I will notify the XFCE/Xubuntu authorities.
*** Bug 649277 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
@Keith. Have you already notified xfce? Can you post the link to the bugreport? thx
I haven't. I searched launchpad for 'xubuntu' and 'xfce' and got many results, and am not entirely where to what. Would you do the honors, since you no doubt know what you're doing?
I opened a report here: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7773
Thanks for opening that report with XFCE -- at the very least, they should probably change that > to a <. However, it's been pointed out in Bug 649277 that notification systems are under no obligation to do anything special with <span> tags, so Banshee probably shouldn't be using them in the first place. I'm marking this as a duplicate of the earlier Bug 649277, so feel free to continue the discussion there. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 649277 ***