Re: Notification services

["Chen Puning" <chenpuning hotmail com>]

Has any of you used Microsoft Agent? I'm thinking if the notification api 
can be implemented into something like that. It could be a quite interesting 
addtion to the GNOME desktop.

>From: Alexander Peuchert <peuc@peuchert.de>
>To: gnome-list@gnome.org
>Subject: Re: Notification services
>Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 16:43:28 +0200 (MET DST)
>
>Hi,
>
>I thought of such a thing, too.
>
>As I don't have time right now( maybe in a month or so), here are my
>thoughts.
>
>- provide a server using gnorba with a backend and a frontend api.
>
>- backend api for notification submitters like:
>	mailbox watchers
>	irc client
>	webpage watchers
>	...
>
>- frontend api for notification listeners
>	pop-up pager
>	ticker
>	nice animation with speech and funny drawings
>	...
>
>- notifications are classified
>	'new mail'
>	'web page changed'
>	...
>
>- objects can register with the backend to provide notifications
>
>- and objects can register with the frontend to listen for notifications
>
>...
>
>alex
>
>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?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Eric
> >
> >
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