Please make notification-daemon-engine-nodoka by default

lovenemesis · #1 31st October 2009, 10:06 PM

Hi,

Recently i installed Fedora 12 Beta, which is pretty nice for these days. However, there is one thing which constantly annoyed me. The notification-daemon area is too black for the default Nodoka theme.

I did a little for notification-daemon via yum and found a rpm called notification-daemon-engine-nodoka. Installed it and changed the /apps/notification-daemon via gconf-editor.

Now it looks much suitable for Nodoka theme.

So, is it possible to make this theme by default rather than the odd black one?

Cheers,

RahulSundaram · #2 6th November 2009, 09:31 AM

Hi,

No plans to switch themes again for this release but it is a good tip for those who do want to change it. Thanks

lovenemesis · #3 6th November 2009, 11:15 AM

Finally there is a reply after more than 300 view. Thanks, RahulSundaram .

**AdamW** · #4 6th November 2009, 08:08 PM

I've been linking people to this thread for the tip on how to change the engine, without replying! My bad.

To contribute, you can change the gconf text to Standard - rather than Nodoka - and you will get the Clearlooks theme, which is exactly what previous releases had.

lovenemesis · #5 6th November 2009, 11:19 PM

AdamW, you are the man~

Anyway, it makes me feel much better to see that this thread is somehow useful.

**AdamW** · #6 7th November 2009, 03:04 AM

thank you for going to the trouble of finding the setting

cswiii · #7 7th November 2009, 05:46 AM

I think both of the themes, black or white, are missing something. I have yet to manage to get an appropriate urgency colour swatch along the side (e.g., `notify-send -u critical foobar`).

I much prefer the old style, but I don't think that seems to exist in F12? Ah well.

forkbomb · #8 7th November 2009, 06:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lovenemesis

Finally there is a reply after more than 300 view. Thanks, RahulSundaram .

The vast majority of Fedora devs don't monitor the forums here. Rahul is the only one I know of. There's no affiliation between Fedora Project and these forums.

If you've got a gripe with some Fedora feature or default, why post it here other than to rant in hopes of garnering commiseration?

**AdamW** · #9 7th November 2009, 06:14 AM

cswiii: with the gconf key set to 'Standard' that gives a white notification with a red sidebar, for me.

cswiii · #10 7th November 2009, 07:30 AM

Adam: I assume you mean /apps/notification-daemon/theme to 'Standard'? Edit: n/m, I just reread the thread from atop. I tried that, and I still get only the white box. Odd. Wonder if I am missing something on this box... I just installed the clearlooks themes, to no avail..although I just realised that this (compact-clearlooks-gnome-theme) is nothing more than a one-off.

As an aside: Maybe this exists in Gnome too, but the fact that XFCE makes it easy/easier to modify notification stuff, versus using gconf-editor, is terrific.

**AdamW** · #11 7th November 2009, 08:20 AM

That is odd. No idea what'd be causing it, though. Huh.

cswiii · #12 7th November 2009, 07:36 PM

Well, partial solution - at least for me anyway. It seems that xfce actually uses a different notification-daemon (xfce-notifyd), which is why editing my gconf didn't do anything. if I killed the xfce damon and start the standard gnome one, things seem to work.

So perhaps this is a bug in xfce... but I don't want to hijack the thread with that. Thanks all.

lovenemesis · #13 7th November 2009, 10:07 PM

Probably we need a thread to contain all the notification daemon tweak tips.

There is a big change for notification mechanism in Fedora 12, isn't it?