Re: libnotify and GNOME 3

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 09:43 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 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.
> 
cool! but please don't forget to add buttons/something for users to
react on notifications to the notifications. Without this, notifications
are almost useless for many cases