Re: Notification services

[sopwith redhat com (Elliot Lee)]

On 5 May 1999 16:05:44 -0400, Eric Kidd <eric.kidd@pobox.com> 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?


Theoretically, gnome_triggers already does this (and is already used for
some basic things like sound events). The API should be fairly flexible,
but the backend needs work. Feel free...

-- Elliot
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