On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Dylan McCall <dylanmccall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> So that you know, those bubbles are created by notification-daemon, >> which is communicated to by the client api in libnotify. In all OSes >> using notification-daemon or its descendants (namely, not any recent >> Ubuntu; Canonical's Notify-OSD does not support it), you can just use >> libnotify and position the bubble wherever you like. >> >> -A. Walton > > Of course, please don't do that :b "Please don't use the library to do exactly what it's designed to do because Ubuntu's implementation is broken" or "Please do copy a whole lot of code into your specific project and make sure to maintain it because otherwise it won't work with Ubuntu". Unfortunately, there are your options. > Libnotify is for system-wide notification messages, not individual > application UIs. That's unfortunately what some users of it want to believe. Except reality disagrees with you. The API was designed for this use case. > Although it could be used for what you want on its > own, we benefit from semantics in delivering a flexible software > ecosystem. > Do check out the notification-daemon source code, however, for a great > example of how to do this :) (That's the implementation used in Fedora > which does the colourful bubbles). > > Notify-osd is the implementation used in Ubuntu. It's really easy to > understand the source code since it's quite young and has a very > specific design, so it could be worth playing with. > https://code.launchpad.net/notify-osd > > > Good luck! > Dylan > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
