Re: libnotify and GNOME 3

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
> libnotify is the only major library that I'm unclear on for GNOME 3.
> It's a conditional buildrequire in all my GNOME projects (as libnotify
> still uses gtk2.0) and I'm sure we should have a more compelling
> vision for notifications in GNOME 3.0. Does libnotify just require
> building against gtk3 or do we need a bigger rethink?
>
> I'm wondering if there has been any discussions on notifications or
> even any API? Specifically for the shell I guess, but it would be nice
> for it to work in a GNOME 2.x fallback environment too.
>

I intend to add notification api in GTK+ (now that we can use dbus,
there's no real reason anymore to put this in a micro-lib). But I need
some input from the shell/design side on how notification etc are
going to look in the GNOME3 world.


Matthias