Much needed KDE application

[Kévin 'ervin' Ottens]

Le mardi 20 Juillet 2004 20:52, Dik Takken a écrit :
> Hello,

Hello,

> I am asking your attention for what I think is a small but very important
> thing that KDE lacks. There is no simple way to have the operating
> system send messages to KDE users in a non-intrusive way. I am thinking
> about kernel messages, messages from all sorts of deamons (like CUPS,
> Samba, etc), messages from the system administrator, and so on. The
> problem with, for example, kernel messages is that KDE itself isn't
> authorised to view the kernel logs. An external script running as root
> needs to parse the logs and send important messages to the desktop
> environment. KDE needs to offer a service to send these messages to (via
> DCOP), like a systray application, and present the messages in a
> non-intrusive way, like Kopete-style message balloons.

From your description it seems to be something similar to EventWatcher :
http://eventwatcher.sourceforge.net/

It's not complete yet and could be refined, but the fact that it uses a plugin 
structure for its input is interesting for this use.

What about working on this thing instead of starting from scratch...

Regards.
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Ne font reculer l'ignorance."