Growl support

[Jeff Mitchell]

Big O wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Leo Franchi wrote:
> 
>> hey guys,
>>
>> I have Growl (OS X system-wide notification system) support ready in a
>> git branch.
>>
>> It is a somewhat intrusive change, as I had to namespace the
>> Collection classes, so I ended up touching a whole bunch of files. The
>> actual amount of new code though is minimal. As we are going to wait a
>> few weeks for 2.0.1, I am gonna go ahead and commit it unless people
>> strenously object.
> I, for one, think this is a horrible idea. We _should_ instead be  
> implementing (so as to promote) native KDE technologies and make them  
> better on the target platforms as necessary. I find it extremely  
> unfortunate that we do not sup...
> 
> Ah heck. I can't pretend anymore. I'm stoked. I say thank you kind sir.

No, there's a good point in there.  KDE doesn't have a system-wise
notification mechanism.  It might be nice to keep the Growl support nice
and abstract, in case someone can turn it into a cross platform KDE lib
that can display notifications (using Growl on OSX).

--Jeff