> > 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. Then I think the Desktop Notifications Specification would need to be updated. >From http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/0.9/index.html 1. Introduction This is a draft standard for a desktop notifications service, through which applications can generate passive popups (sometimes known as "poptarts") to notify the user in an asynchronous manner of events. This specification explicitly does not include other types of notification presentation such as modal message boxes, window manager decorations or window list annotations. Example use cases include: * Presence changes in IM programs: for instance, MSN Messenger on Windows pioneered the use of passive popups to indicate presence changes. * Scheduled alarm * Completed file transfer * New mail notification * Low disk space/battery warnings Asynchronous is an important word there, in my interpretation. Also, the fact that this is a dbus API would say something to the benefit of my interpretation. If this was just for the purpose of creating a fancy dialog box with an arrow, it should be a GTK widget, no? 3. Backwards Compatibility Clients should try and avoid making assumptions about the presentation and abilities of the notification server. The message content is the most important thing. Clients can check with the server what capabilities are supported using the GetCapabilities message. See Protocol. Key lesson to gather from there: positions, actions, etc. should not be relied upon. Then, there's a useful rule in application design: do not use things that can't be relied upon as a sole means of communication. This also says quite clearly that notify-osd is not broken, it's just different, which is entirely permissible within the spec (and encouraged by its mere existence). Is Maemo's implementation broken? Gnome-shell's? Fedora's patches for making it look different? Notification-daemon with any theme that removes the pointy arrow? Why does Galago bother maintaining two separate projects when they could just say notification-daemon is god and tie everything straight to it? Looking forward to hearing your interpretation; maybe I'm reading the wrong document or something. (Created a new subject just in case, but hopefully it isn't necessary; I don't intend to make more noise about this since I am probably about to wander out of my depth :b). Dylan _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
