Re: Notification or applet?

[Ali Abdallah <aliov xfce org>]

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>    1. Notification or applet? (Sander Marechal)
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> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:00:17 +0100
> From: Sander Marechal <s marechal jejik com>
> Subject: Notification or applet?
> To: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
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> Hi all,
>
> I am working on an application that has a feature in common with
> Rythmbox, X-Chat, Pidgin and a few other applications: It should sit in
> the system tray when closed/minimized.
>
> I am wondering how I should program this. I know about Gnome applets but
> it's not really an applet (like Pidgin and Rhythmbox aren't applets but
> full-blown applications). But I have read that the notification area
> shouldn't be (ab)used for this either.
>
>   
You have to use GtkStatusIcon here, in this way your application will 
not depend on a specific platform.

> Also, my application needs to show notification popups every now and again.
>
> So, how should I do this? As an applet? Use the notification area? Some
> combination of the two? Is there a third way?
>
>   
You can use Libnotify to send notification to the daemon notification 
server, Libnotify makes the notification easy, you could also with it 
attach your notification to the status icon that you create.

> Thanks in advance for any help. 
Let me know if you need more details.

> Kind regards,
>
>   
Best Regards,
Ali.