Re: notification area for notification?

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 13:18, Colin Walters wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am interested in using the notification area in Rhythmbox, to show the
> song title when playback starts.  However, I can't seem to get it to
> work; I call egg_tray_icon_send_message, but nothing happens.
> 
> I looked at the notification area code a little bit, and it seems like
> it should work.  I did notice though that main.c ignores the timeout
> passed; why?
> 
> Does anyone know of any application that actually uses the notification
> area for notification, and it works?

You could try looking at gnomechat/src/tray-icon.c and work backwards
from there. The notification tray portion of gnomechat seems to work
nicely. It looks fairly comprehensible from glancing over the code.

Cheers,
Malcolm