Re: libnotify and the HIG

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 15:40 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> My suggestion would be to not do the positioning calculation yourself,
> and let the notification stuff handle this itself. You can pass in the
> widget that you are using for the notification icon, to the _new () API
> call, and it will automatically calculate the position of the icon.
> 
> Currently the code calculates this to point at the center of the widget.
> This is how NetworkManager works to use the notifications. And with the
> added bonus that we can change the behavior in one single place, and it
> will affect all of the applications that use it this way, meaning that
> if the HIG changes, we don't have to change every application, by doing
> a huge swath of copy and paste code usage.

That's what I wanted to know. Thanks for the quick response.

Richard.