Growl support

[Casey Link]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Jeff Mitchell
<kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com> wrote:
> 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.


Our OSD is essentially just a styled kpassive popup that is usually
displayed in the middle of the screen, as opposed to near the system
tray. I'm not sure what there is to factor out.

The plasma team has been trying to get a desktop independent
notification standard worked out for awhile now, with not much
success. That's really what needs to happen :\

Casey