Re: GNOME 2.10 module proposal: libnotify and notification-daemon

[Alejandro Sánchez Acosta <asanchez gnome org>]

On Sunday 07 November 2004 01:46, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 11:32:47 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > Do you plan for this to move to the GNOME Developer Platform suite, or
> > the freedesktop.org Platform?
>
> I'll let Christian answer this, but I believe the intention was if the
> freedesktop.org platform solidifies and actually becomes a dependency of
> KDE/GNOME to go there. It was written and designed with this in mind.

KDE already has a notification technology with knotify. It may be more 
productive in the long run to make sure their input and needs are met, and 
then establishing a common notification specification within freedesktop.

> >> Name: notification-daemon
> >
> > Shouldn't this functionality be aggregated into an existing GNOME
> > component, such as the notification area applet, the panel, or
> > gnome-session?
>
> This was discussed on IRC. I'll sum up the points made:
>
> Pros for a separate daemon:
> - reliability/robustness
> - works better with selinux
> - that's how it's actually written, though it could be adapted easily
> - can be activated by dbus-daemon on demand
>
> Cons for a separate daemon:
> - extra startup time needed to create a new process
> - Jeff mentioned "fewer moving parts better for administrators" though
>   not being an administrator I don't really understand this ...
> - "ps ax" is kind of messy when you have a ton of daemons, but then we
>   already do have a ton of daemons so it's kind of a moot point.
>
> I don't have a strong opinion either way on the matter, though I think it
> makes marginally more sense to keep it an individual process.

Regards,
Alejandro