Re: Notification Widget

["A. Walton" <awalton gnome org>]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Dylan McCall <dylanmccall gmail com> wrote:
>> So that you know, those bubbles are created by notification-daemon,
>> which is communicated to by the client api in libnotify. In all OSes
>> using notification-daemon or its descendants (namely, not any recent
>> Ubuntu; Canonical's Notify-OSD does not support it), you can just use
>> libnotify and position the bubble wherever you like.
>>
>> -A. Walton
>
> Of course, please don't do that :b

"Please don't use the library to do exactly what it's designed to do
because Ubuntu's implementation is broken" or "Please do copy a whole
lot of code into your specific project and make sure to maintain it
because otherwise it won't work with Ubuntu".

Unfortunately, there are your options.

> Libnotify is for system-wide notification messages, not individual
> application UIs.

That's unfortunately what some users of it want to believe. Except
reality disagrees with you. The API was designed for this use case.

> Although it could be used for what you want on its
> own, we benefit from semantics in delivering a flexible software
> ecosystem.
> Do check out the notification-daemon source code, however, for a great
> example of how to do this :) (That's the implementation used in Fedora
> which does the colourful bubbles).
>
> Notify-osd is the implementation used in Ubuntu. It's really easy to
> understand the source code since it's quite young and has a very
> specific design, so it could be worth playing with.
> https://code.launchpad.net/notify-osd
>
>
> Good luck!
> Dylan
>