On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:44 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:27 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> I hope our alert system will use the freedesktop.org standard: >>>> http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/index.php >>>> It is widely used in Gnome, and when I last reviewed it seems to be a >>>> solid and capable spec. >>> >>> The interfaces in that spec look quite good, although perhaps would >>> benefit from a simpler, alternative API that also abstracts the D-Bus >>> stuff. Perhaps rainbow should do some rate limiting or permissions >>> checking, not sure. >> >> Sure, wrap the actual DBus calls with a simplied sugar/python method >> if you like, but *please* let's implement a listener for that API so >> that unmodified applications can interact sensibly with Sugar, and so >> that our system tools & activities can interoperate with non-Sugar >> window managers. >> >> Similarly, we should really implement that standard freedesktop.org >> startup notification spec, so we can get sensible notifications and >> icons for 'ordinary' applications. > > Yes, what you asked for is what we aim for ;)
Yay! --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
