Re: [Ayatana] Audial notifications.

2010-12-16 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 25/09/10 17:28, Dylan McCall wrote: > Attaching a sound hint to notifications is in notify-osd's > specification (and the desktop notifications spec). > > I put a patch implementing the feature here: > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/notify-osd/+bug/549900 > > As for tying together libnotify and

Re: [Ayatana] Audial notifications.

2010-09-25 Thread Dylan McCall
There's a very timely and interesting discussion ready to happen on Gnome's desktop-devel mailing list, too. You may be interested in where it goes. I know I am! http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2010-September/msg00044.html Dylan ___ Ma

Re: [Ayatana] Audial notifications.

2010-09-25 Thread Dylan McCall
> Maybe. And people always have the option of playing a sound via pulseaudio > directly, or with libcanberra. > > I would however argue that 99% of the time, if you want an audio > *notification*, you probably  want a messaging menu item, *AND* a notify-osd > notification too. > > Like notify-osd b

Re: [Ayatana] Audial notifications.

2010-09-25 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 09:35, Shane Fagan wrote: > Yeah the btw play a little sound to go with that is a little bit too > far. I think it has to be two separate events so you can use the audio > api without having to create a messaging menu item. > Maybe. And people always have the option of pla

Re: [Ayatana] Audial notifications.

2010-09-25 Thread Mohamed Amine IL Idrissi
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Owais Lone wrote: > IMO, messaging menu should support audial notifications too. It should be > able to play sounds upon arrival of new messages etc. > For obvious benefits playing sounds along with visual notification is > better. I would like messaging menu to ha

Re: [Ayatana] Audial notifications.

2010-09-25 Thread Shane Fagan
Yeah the btw play a little sound to go with that is a little bit too far. I think it has to be two separate events so you can use the audio api without having to create a messaging menu item. --fagan On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 09:31 -0600, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > Right now, an application has to do t

Re: [Ayatana] Audial notifications.

2010-09-25 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
Right now, an application has to do three things: - Sent a notification - Create a messaging-menu item - Play a sound All three have different protocols and approaches. In my mind, it would be great to have this all unified. One protocol that says "I'd like to create a messaging menu i

Re: [Ayatana] Audial notifications.

2010-09-25 Thread Shane Fagan
Interesting idea, well it would be trivial to make a dbus listener that plays a sound depending on the message. So why not :) --fagan On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 20:42 +0530, Owais Lone wrote: > IMO, messaging menu should support audial notifications too. It should > be able to play sounds upon arrival

[Ayatana] Audial notifications.

2010-09-25 Thread Owais Lone
IMO, messaging menu should support audial notifications too. It should be able to play sounds upon arrival of new messages etc. For obvious benefits playing sounds along with visual notification is better. I would like messaging menu to handle this on it's own. This would mean, less hassle for the