On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:00:04 +0200 lok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:43:25 -0400 > "Sthithaprajna Garapaty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think for now we can get away with just a notification module. Is there > > > any spec for this? Anything we should be looking at? (maybe the Gnome & > > > KDE code). > > > > Somewhat. There's libnotify and the Desktop Notification Spec. > > http://trac.galago-project.org/wiki/DesktopNotifications > > http://galago-project.org/specs/notification/index.php > > http://galago-project.org/downloads.php > > > > Unfortunately, its not too widely implemented, and the spec is not too > > comprehensive either. > > But, it does provide a lot more flexiblity than the systray spec in > > that it does not restrict you to single icons in a row and of course, > > it throws out the ugly sub-windowing for actual images (with alpha) > > and text. > > > > > > Basically, it would be nice if we could, maybe extend the IBox so each > > > minimized application can send notifications. Maybe we could somehow fool > > > other applications into thinking they've been trayed so that they can > > > send notifications and we can capture them. > > > > This seems like a bad idea to me. Applications shouldnt have to be > > minimized to send notifications. In fact, applications shouldn't need > > to have a window open to send notifications. > > imho the notification and the tray system must be separated. They're goal are > too different to make it in one only module. > > > > These are just my thoughts, dunno if they're good. Waiting to hear your > > > opinions. I might get into this module, in a few days, when I finish my > > > current work. I have other things on my list as well (I have updating the > > > carbon theme, and integrating some power management into E on my list at > > > the moment). > > > > > > So basically, I'd like to collect some thoughts on these items. But > > > mostly, on this notification thing. > > I think that basically we need a "notification daemon" like describe in the > spec. But more than that it would be very great if the daemon posses some > prebuilt widgets and that all we need is to passe a description of the UI by > dbus (I risk my life saying that but if we want something multidesktop, xml > should be used here). > > About the daemon : > He has to be able to parse the xml input and make the corresponding UI (seems > logical). The xml describe the widgets used, their different properties and > value and their positions (something like the box model of edje would be > great for that but again if we wan't something "multi desktop" and not just > for e maybe this point need some discussion). Concerning the prebuilt > widgets, I'm not talking about remake another toolkit, the daemon has just to > use already existant basics widgets (i.e: label, button, image, progressbar, > scrolledview) in the toolkit of his choice. > > Thus with a system like that, the theme and toolkit used for the notification > is not anymore choose by the application but by the user. > > Here is my thoughts, whether you took it or not I'm really interested by > using a notification something so I hope that you are going to start to work > on it soon :)
unless such a ui spec is part of the notification spec - it's a waste of time as nothing will support it. as for a notification "module" - i certainly have no plans on doing one. > lok. > > > > Cheers, > > > Eugen. > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > > > > your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn > > > > cash > > > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > > > _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel > > > > mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > > > your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn > > > cash > > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > > _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel > > > mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
