Get the old notification system back in Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10
The next Ubuntu release (9.04, “Jaunty Jackalope”) will see the first set of changes introduced by Canonical’s Desktop Experience Team: The much-discussed notify-osd notification system, and the indicator applet.
The idea came up to allow both developers and users to be able to choose between the “Ubuntuized” and a more “upstream-like” GNOME experience. Martin Pitt (maintainer) has called that “stracciatella GNOME session”, after the favourite kind of ice cream which is mostly vanilla (GNOME), but with some brown chocolate chips (Ubuntu modifications) in it.
To enable this feature simply run the following:
apt-get install gnome-stracciatella-session
and select the “GNOME (without Ubuntu specific components)” session in gdm.
In Jaunty or Karmic, this will suppress the messaging indicator and flip back to the classical GNOME notification-daemon again. Martin Pitt plans to keep stracciatella-session up to date with new developments in future Ubuntu releases as well.
