Re: Request for Comments: GNOME Notifier

[Mike Hearn <mike navi cx>]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:33:14 -0700, Christian Hammond wrote:
>> It seems that the main  change  required for them is to use DBUS instead
>> of a DCOM mechanism to call the server, and then move to the new spec if
>> they like it. is that the only stone in the way?
> 
> That, and we'd need code to listen in on our notification D-BUS
> service and relay it to KNotify.

I've been thinking more about this, and KNotify isn't really a good
semantic match. If you look at the API docs it's really a lot more
generic, codes presentation styles into the API and so on.

I think a better approach would be to just have a simple proxy app (or KDE
backend to the current notification-daemon ref impl) which uses
KPassivePopup directly. That way you get KDE UI, a C++ backend which I
think they may like ... KNotify isn't used under the hood but as far as
the user is concerned the experience is very similar.

Lubos, any thoughts on that?

thanks -mike


(ps franco I hope you meant DCOP and not DCOM, otherwise I may have to
shoot you ;)