GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 745984
HTML anchors in notifications are not properly formatted.
Last modified: 2015-03-10 19:32:07 UTC
Hello Whenever a notification is sent that contains an HTML anchor, its body isn't correctly formatted in the notification displayed above the message tray. I didn't think this was intended behavior as other HTML tags (such as b for bold) are correctly parsed. This bug has been present at least since GNOME 3.14, but IIRC was also present in GNOME 3.12. This can be reproduced by opening a terminal and entering (requires libnotify): notify-send --icon=gtk-add "Test" 'This is <b>bold</b>. This is a <a href="http://test.com"><i>link</i></a>' The bold and italic text markup works just fine, but the HTML anchor is never replaced and ends up unparsed in the final output. There are a few applications that use these HTML anchors in notifications, such as Mumble and IM clients. The following URL's also relate to the problem: - https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/issues/1535 - https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/2416 My apologies if this is the wrong location for this bug, I wasn't exactly sure where to put it, it is however relevant to the message tray. Kind regards and thanks in advance
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