Re: [Sugar-devel] New method for Activity class to send notifications

2014-03-26 Thread Walter Bender
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Manuel Quiñones wrote: > 2014-03-26 19:23 GMT-03:00 Martin Abente : >> notify_user sounds good to me :) +1 > > Same to me, notify_user fits best. I meant to add my comment below > that one, sorry. > >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Manuel Quiñones wrote

Re: [Sugar-devel] New method for Activity class to send notifications

2014-03-26 Thread Manuel Quiñones
2014-03-26 19:23 GMT-03:00 Martin Abente : > notify_user sounds good to me :) Same to me, notify_user fits best. I meant to add my comment below that one, sorry. > > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Manuel Quiñones wrote: >> >> 2014-03-26 18:12 GMT-03:00 James Cameron : >> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2

Re: [Sugar-devel] New method for Activity class to send notifications

2014-03-26 Thread Martin Abente
notify_user sounds good to me :) On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Manuel Quiñones wrote: > 2014-03-26 18:12 GMT-03:00 James Cameron : > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 09:40:41AM -0300, Martin Abente wrote: > >> His work is almost done [2,3,4], but it introduces a new method to > >> the base Activity

Re: [Sugar-devel] New method for Activity class to send notifications

2014-03-26 Thread Manuel Quiñones
2014-03-26 18:12 GMT-03:00 James Cameron : > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 09:40:41AM -0300, Martin Abente wrote: >> His work is almost done [2,3,4], but it introduces a new method to >> the base Activity class, therefore I wanted your opinions regarding >> the name of this method, the current options ar

Re: [Sugar-devel] New method for Activity class to send notifications

2014-03-26 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
> > > "sugar_shell_add_notification_and_send_to_user" would be the worst. > > Maybe is a good name for a Java implementation :) -- Gonzalo Odiard SugarLabs - Learning Software for children ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org ht

Re: [Sugar-devel] New method for Activity class to send notifications

2014-03-26 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 09:40:41AM -0300, Martin Abente wrote: > His work is almost done [2,3,4], but it introduces a new method to > the base Activity class, therefore I wanted your opinions regarding > the name of this method, the current options are [4]: > * send_notification > * add_notificat

Re: [Sugar-devel] New method for Activity class to send notifications

2014-03-26 Thread Sam Parkinson
Hi, It is compatible with the dbus interface thing. But notifications with an app name of something like "Chat activity" will get a new icon in the frame. The function in the toolkit just sends a notification where the name is the activities id, which shows it under the activity button. Sam On Ma

Re: [Sugar-devel] New method for Activity class to send notifications

2014-03-26 Thread Sebastian Silva
Sorry I hadn't read the proposal in detail. So if I understand correctly, if a regular X11 application emits a gi.repository.Notification, it will display correctly in Sugar? That's great, kudos on the work. Sebastian El mié, 26 de mar 2014 a las 10:21 AM, Martin Abente escribió: Hello S

Re: [Sugar-devel] New method for Activity class to send notifications

2014-03-26 Thread Martin Abente
Hello Sebastian, The notification back-end is already a subset of freedesktop notification definition. That is something we had in Sugar since a long time. We just added some other missing parts (displaying subject and body). But, for the front-end, If you look at Gary's design, you will see that

Re: [Sugar-devel] New method for Activity class to send notifications

2014-03-26 Thread Sebastian Silva
Hi Martin, What about using this: https://developer.gnome.org/notification-spec/ ? I really think we should be moving towards FreeDesktop standards instead of rolling our own. Currently it would look like this, or you can add some syntax sugar to it: #!/usr/bin/python from gi.repository im

Re: [Sugar-devel] New method for Activity class to send notifications

2014-03-26 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
I vote for "add_notification" Gonzalo On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Martin Abente < martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > We recently landed a messages notifications feature, based on Gary's > designs [1]. One of our GCI 2013 hackers, Sam Parkinson, is has sent the > b

[Sugar-devel] New method for Activity class to send notifications

2014-03-26 Thread Martin Abente
Hello Everyone, We recently landed a messages notifications feature, based on Gary's designs [1]. One of our GCI 2013 hackers, Sam Parkinson, is has sent the bits to enable activities to send notifications too, as in Gary's design. His work is almost done [2,3,4], but it introduces a new method t