Am Mon, 28 Apr 2014 00:06:52 +0100 schrieb Olly Betts <o...@survex.com>:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 01:09:12PM +0200, Christian Beier wrote: > > This is a feature request to enable support for libnotify notifications > > in debian's wx-3.0. > > > > The issue is touched shortly in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- > > bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738849#22, but I thought I'd rather open a new > > feature request as this is unrelated to webview support. > > Thanks, this is much better addressed as a separate bug. > > > To clarify between wx built-in notifications and wx using libnotify > > notifications: The builtin notifications use a generic approach, just > > displaying a dialog-like window in the middle of the screen, but > > certainly nothing a user would expect a GNOME/KDE/... notification to > > look like. This is where libnotify comes in: this is what the major > > Linux desktop environments are using. > > > > Thus, integration of libnotify is not pointless, but enables a more > > native look and feel of wx notifications. > > I am aware of what libnotify is and does, but you don't really seem to > have addressed the code comment I quoted in the message you refer to (in > src/generic/notifmsgg.cpp): > > // even if the platform has the native implementation, we still normally want > // to use the generic one (unless it's totally unsuitable for the target UI as > // is the case of Hildon) because it may provide more features, so include > // wx/generic/notifmsg.h to get wxGenericNotificationMessage declaration even > // if wx/notifmsg.h only declares wxNotificationMessage itself (if it already > // uses the generic version, the second inclusion will do no harm) > > It sounds like we may lose some features by switching to libnotify, so > I'd like to understand what (if any) those are, so we can understand any > trade-offs we are making here, and (if necessary) so we can warn the > maintainers of the many packages with use wx to check for regressions > this change may cause. The comment says 'may' and to my knowledge the generic implementation certainly does not provide more features than the libnotify one. It really just is a simple window in the middle of the screen with icon and text. This is the generic one: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8As7-zDizw0/UBKRQYLsm9I/AAAAAAAAAKc/Y2Xc7WOr_ck/s1600/wx-notification-old.png And the libnotify one, which IMO integrates far better with the desktop environment: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-okwdgCMhbS4/UBKS3XJon0I/AAAAAAAAAKo/sF5zC5a-XHM/s1600/wx-notification-new.png Cheers, Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
