Re: [trinity-devel] Desktop environment agnostic notification popups - tde-devels

4 Dec 2013

...
 Notify-send seems to be the most generic of them all,
but does 
depend
on dbus. Most applets I've seen (mostly gtk applets though), do 
use
notify send for their notifications. 
Can we hack kdbusnotification, knotify, or notify-send to work 
correctly?

...
 You could also use a basic scriptable widget like
xdialog which is
like cdialog or just dialog 
I want a system tray popup. (Nikolaus) Likewise for xmessage or 
xosd. :-)

I already can create message windows with kdialog, KDED kwrited, or 
dcop. But such a script is then not desktop-agnostic. I don't want 
to waste time with a bunch of if-then tests. :-)

I want a message that does not timeout, which is broken in notify-
send when used in non-GTK environments. (Or possibly is broken only 
in Qt/TQt environments because the -t0 option does not work in KDE 
either.)

Besides the broken -t0 option in non-GTK environments, the 
notification popup does not use knotify or kdbusnotification. Seems 
like notify-send is an obvious option, but not integrated into TDE 
at all. Either notify-send or knotify/kdbusnotification need 
patching.

If notify-send supports/requires dbus, then patching 
kdbusnotifcation would be the most straightforward option?

Ideas?

Darrell