On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 06:25:41AM +0100, David Henningsson wrote: > On 11/26/2013 10:53 PM, Damir Jeli? wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:51:14PM +0100, Damir Jeli? wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:25:29PM +0100, David Henningsson wrote: > >>> On 11/26/2013 06:47 PM, Damir Jeli? wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Hi David. > >>>> > >>>> Did you take a look at the "Desktop Notifications Specification"[1]. It > >>>> seems to somewhat overlap with your idea. > >>> > >>> Yes, and ruled it out due to the following reasons: > >>> > >>> 1) The GSoC project that implemented this specification was never merged. > >> > >> I'm not sure if the GSoC project implemented this spec but that would be > >> another reason to use the code already provided and merge the GSoC > >> project. > >> > >>> > >>> 2) Unity, Ubuntu's standard shell, does not support the dialog part of > >>> the spec. (It is possible that the GSoC project dealt with this somehow, > >>> not sure.) > >>> > >> > >> The GSoC project has support for AppIndicator[1] (this is used in > >> Unity, right?), so another reason to reuse it. > >> > > > > Would be nice to include the link. :p > > > > [1] https://github.com/SliMM/pulseaudio/commit/b56a57ee0daf4a882f5a94e135dd40a102263046 > > Hmm. The "App Indicator Server" looks like something SliMM has invented > himself, and is it supposed to be a constantly running daemon? Or is it > dbus activated somehow? Yeah, seems to be this small vala app there. I don't speak vala but it looks like it should be constantly running. So the code doesn't look as promising as I first thought. > > Also; point 3) still remains even if we would have solved these two. > I have no idea what the expectations of a dialog are and if the Desktop Notifications Specification fulfils them. I'm out of suggestions. Carry on. :p
