Re: notification enhancements

[Christopher Aillon <caillon redhat com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Christian Hammond wrote:
> > You say there's no way imaginable to use libnotify, but I'm curious why? 
>
> It just won't work. Look at the Mugshot notifications, look at what 
> libnotify supports. (If you don't want to install mugshot, just look at 
> someone's page on mugshot.org, the local client notifications are about 
> the same as the stacker blocks on the web site, except a little more 
> complex even)
>
> It isn't just a graphic design issue; Mugshot has all kinds of links and 
> thumbnails and a chat log and other stuff in the notifications. It would 
> be a substantially worse user experience if reduced to only title + 
> summary + some buttons.

Thunderbird 2.0 is also another example of "things libnotify can't do". 
 It tells you that you have N new mail messages and lists some 
summaries and the first few lines of text, and you can click on a 
message in this popup and be taken directly to the mail itself.  It's in 
Rawhide/FC7Test4 if you want to check it out.