Re: libsn

[Alan Horkan <horkana tcd ie>]

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Alberto [iso-8859-1] Simões/EPL wrote:

> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 08:41:06 +0100
> From: "Alberto [iso-8859-1] Simões/EPL" <albie alfarrabio di uminho pt>
> To: Gnome <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
> Subject: Re: libsn
>
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:47:02PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> | <quote who="Havoc Pennington"/>
> |
> | > For startup notification I have "libsn" which is about 1000 lines of
> | > code compiling to about a 20K binary on Linux/Intel.
> | >
> | > It will be used by libwnck and metacity. It lives on
> | > cvs.freedesktop.org and has no dependencies other than Xlib.
> | >
> | > I think we should just install it instead of cut-and-paste. Not as a
> | > platform lib, of course. Opinions?
> |
> | Another thought, perhaps there could be an xdg package for all of these
> | things (I'm sure that the standards, and hopefully shared code, will grow -
> | perhaps this will encourage it).  :-)
> |
>
> What's libsn? O:)
>
> Albie

maybe you missed Havoc's mail earlier or you want a more thorough
explanation.

Here is Havoc's description again just in case.

> For startup notification I have "libsn" which is about 1000 lines of
> code compiling to about a 20K binary on Linux/Intel.

I hate acrnonyms, and would strongly recommend and hope that you choose a
name that people at least have a half decent chance of geussing what it
stands for any sort of an abbreviation such as libsnotify (may not 'snot'
such a good name) maybe libstartnote...

I dunno, you get the gist and now while it is new is the chance you have
to type a few extra character and make things more understanble and make
life easier and more understandable for ordinary programmers.  You know
that it will be well nigh impossible to change change the name later.

Calum, does the usability guideline cover suggested program Gnaming
Konventions yet? (and i mean in a much stronger way than just changing the
start menu labels).

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
Born Critic, I'll learn diplomacey eventually.

http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/