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

[Richard Hartmann]

On 04/09/07, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:

> It's maybe too GTK based KDE folks to like too much :p but if the DBUS
> SPEC at least is acceptable then it would be nice to have a drop in
> replacement. I think Xfce has made their own one for example.

Yah, GTK is very non-pleasing to my KDE eyes, but it is better than no
solution, by far :)


> In an ideal world I'd like to see the spec implemented in Gnome (already
> done if you take the current GTK one as the "gnome" one) and KDE. And
> perhaps someone would even write a compiz plugin that implemented it
> too! And as it's just a DBUS thing all the apps could just magically
> work with whatever one the user has chosen. It would be CrossDesktop
> bliss to have both e.g. amarok and rhythmbox display vaguely similar
> popups in the style of my current desktop :) (please don't argue that
> the popups "define" the app - there is still scope within the general
> framework to make the popups unique or to differentiate them from the
> competition IMO)

This is actually something that would make a lot of sense. If freedesktop
were to take over the spec and make sure it is generic enough for not only
Gnome, things could become very interesting..


Richard