Re: Notification services

[Edward Dunagin <edunagin columbus rr com>]

one interesting happening....

i'm running ICMWM and when i'm in a different desktop and a message
arrives in pine, my desktop automagiclly changes to the pine desktop..

could be a bother though i like it

Peace...............................ed

On Wed, 5 May 1999, Eric Kidd wrote:

> Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 15:45:16 -0400
> From: Eric Kidd <eric.kidd@pobox.com>
> To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Notification services
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> 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?
> 
> Cheers,
> Eric
> 
> 
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