xfce4-notifyd and support for <br> tag. Do we need it?

Mike Massonnet mmassonnet at gmail.com
Wed Feb 24 11:43:40 CET 2010


2010/2/24 Brian J. Tarricone <brian at tarricone.org>
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 05:30, uh.linux at gmail.com <uh.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've wrote a patch, that add support for a <br> tag to xfce4-notifyd.
>
> Aside from spec non-compliance, another problem with this patch is
> that this feature just plain isn't useful.  If an application wants to
> put a line break in the message displayed, they can just put a line
> feed (\n) in the message body.

Indeed, it's exactly what I thought, and from command line this works for me:

notify-send "title" "`echo -e "test\nreturn\ncarrier"`"

So <br> should simply be left out for the precise fact that a return
carrier works fine.

>
>     -brian

--
Mike



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