Re: Notification services

[Dave <gnome istream net>]

Hmm this sounds like a pretty good idea to me.  Kinda a "biff protocol" of
sorts.  Dont think such a thing would too hard to implement.  Maybe as a
background process like esd and an xapp could catch them and queue them or
something..  Anyone else have thoughts on this?

On Wed, 5 May 1999, Eric Kidd wrote:

> Like most Linux users, I run lots of software at once. Some of this
> software wants to notify me of various events. My mail program needs to
> tell me when new mail arrives. My IRC client needs to get my attention
> whenever somebody asks for help on a certain channel. Other programs need
> to report errors.
> 
> The syslog mechanism works fine for system events. But no equivalent
> mechanism exists for user events.
> 
> Would it be worthwhile to create a standard API for getting the user's
> attention?
>