Re: notifications in gtk

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 10:23:40AM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> A new api
[..]
> Portability considerations
> 
> - Most of the GtkNotification api can probably be implemented against
> org.freedesktop.Notifications (except the fire-and-forget aspects),
> and this is what I think we should start out with
> 
> - The api that we are presenting here is fairly similar to OS X'
> NSNotification api, and should be easily implementable on top of it
> 
> - After looking for notification apis on windows, we are confident
> that this api proposal is confident with the win8 notification
> guidelines and api ('toast'...). It will not be a very good fit for
> traditional icon+balloon messages.

Would a Qt/KDE application be able to show notifications as well? Would
this require freedesktop.org work, or is the intention to keep this
limited to GNOME shell implementation?

Wondering if you also looked at iOS and Android.

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Regards,
Olav