Re: Instant Message notifications

[Philipp Mohrenweiser <phiamo googlemail com>]

Hi folks,

i was also thinking about that messaging problem, e.g. for new email the noticator in bottom right side is nice, if i look there here and then, but i had the gmail notoifcation in the panel near the clock in 2.x so if i was away from desktop and came back there was this and perhabs a green envelope of the ubuntu messaging thing which also showed up for pidgin messages.

So since  this was cool but sometimes annoying and the new empathy beeing nicer and gnome-shell beeing the nicest thing around i thought 

why not have a extension or application providing a messages icon near the clock again, which shows per default "!nothing!".

I could add in some settings dialog to have certain messages which come via libnotify 

* to be sticky e.g. mail or im from certain persons like your chef 

* to make the icon blick (for even higher prio things)

* to add a bubble or thing with the message subject (for special email which came in)

* to have an number there with unread thins which passed all filters

etc.

i think it would just be nice to define myself which things i want to be instant notified.

cause in my workflow i have a lot of info comin in and not everything should be allowed to disturb me!

Cheers Phil

2011/5/4 David Prieto <frandavid100 gmail com>

Jasper,

This is indeed what we're trying to do... see the long thread that davidz started about "GOA"

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-April/msg00107.html

That's very, very interesting. One thing caught my eye, though:

This daemon/library thing, let's call it GOA (Gnome Online Accounts),
would _not_ be a mechanism to access any of these services. But it
would provide e.g. libsocialweb, telepathy, e-d-s and so on with
either the username/password combo or the OAuth token, whatever is
appropriate.

Does that mean that in order to get, e.g. IM notifications, the user would still have to open Empathy? Because not needing to keep it open was one of the main points of my proposal.

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