Growl support

[Jeff Mitchell]

Dan Meltzer wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Jeff Mitchell
> <kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com> wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> We have knotify... and someone was working on adding an osd (based on
> amaroks) to KNotify for kde4.1 or so... I'm not exactly sure what
> happened to it, but we should really look into that, as if we could
> use knotify (and growl support could instead be added to knotify for
> os x...) it would make our code oh so much cleaner.

Yep, that's exactly what I was thinking...not necessarily KNotify, but
that our OSD could be factored out and made into a generic KDE lib.

--Jeff