Would you want and use a Growl-like interface in KDE?

[Seb Ruiz]

On 04/09/07, Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am writing to find out if I should file a wishlist bug on b.k.o
>
> Some of you might have heard of Growl [1], a generic
> system for presenting information on Mac OS X. While it is
> easy to use
>
> kdialog --passivepopup "foo bar" 4
>
> to create popups in KDE, they are ugly and you can not
> select where to place them on your screen. I was wondering
> if there are any plans for a generic notification framework in
> KDE4. If not, there is potential for a nice and extendable tool.
>
> As Amarok already has a very nice notification mechanism,
> it would perhaps be possible to steal and adapt this for KDE
> 3.5.8 (now that KDE4 comes two months later) or it could be
> integrated with KDE4.
>
> With a dbus interface, Perl, Python, whatnot modules and
> hooks from other programs (think activity on Tab 3 in
> Konsole, you have new mail, etc) I see many uses for such
> a notification system.
>
>
> Do you guys think this idea has merrit, too? Did I miss an
> already existing solution to this problem? Do you think
> Krowl is a good name?
>

I doubt that you would be able to get anything into kde 3.5.8. Also, I
think that notifications are going to be handled by some sort plasma
enabled knotify, but I can't be sure.

I agree, I think that the kpassivepopups are really ugly and growl is
slick but perhaps it would be wise to find out what has been happening
with the notification department on the KDE4 front.

Seb

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