Re: gnome-triggers/gnome-sound/sound events

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

George wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 05:31:13PM +0200, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
> > To me centralizing this also sounds a lot better than linking each Gnome app
> > against libesd just to do some sound notifications.
> >
> > It's also what KDE2 does (knotify runs as seperate service that handles
> > notifications, applications only communicate their events to knotify). It
> > seems that the design works well.
> 
> Hmmm, an idea ...
> 
> This kind of stuff doesn't seem to at all be a desktop specific thing, that is
> I don't see it using any GUI or other stuff that would make it so.  How about
> writing (or using existing knotify) for both gnome and kde?  If extra
> functionality would be required a "plugin" system thatwould open per desktop
> components could work out well here.
> 
> This would make sure that gnome apps running under kde and vice versa would
> use the same notification schemes, and thus accessibility (which seems to be
> one use for this) could be increased.

Yes, I agree that if gnome apps and kde apps don't use the same
notification mechanism things will be a lot messier.  Sounds like a
good idea.

-Bill

> George
> 
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Bill Haneman
Gnome Accessibility / Batik SVG Toolkit
Sun Microsystems Ireland