Fwd: Re: Request for Comments: GNOME Notifier

[Lubos Lunak]

On Friday 30 of July 2004 10:53, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> On Friday 30 July 2004 10:03, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> >  does KNotify have an active maintainer these days? Could somebody take
> > care of this?
>
> There was a recent lengthy thread on -core-devel, "Much needed KDE
> application", exactly about receiving general system notifications. That
> thread settled down to "there is an application already that can be
> extended to meet those needs." I'm CC'ing Dik (who started the MNKA thread)
> and Chris (from DUNS) so that they know of each other's existence.

 I see, I think I ignored the thread while still processing mails accumulated 
during my vacation. It's interesting to see how few people know that this 
"application" (if KNotify can be called so) has been in KDE since ages.

 This is probably something more suited for the xdg at freedesktop.org. I asked 
on the gnome list about the proposal being discussed there.

> > Subject: Re: Request for Comments: GNOME Notifier
> > Date: Thursday 29 of July 2004 01:37
> > From: Christian Hammond <chipx86 at gnupdate.org>
> > To: desktop-devel-list at gnome.org
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 12:32:08AM -0400, Franco Catrin L. wrote:
> > > I want to receive some ideas and thoughts from you about a User
> > > Notification System for GNOME, or better than that, a Desktop User
> > > Notification System.
> >
> > Mike Hearn and I have been drafting a spec for proposal to
> > freedesktop.org that would provide a D-BUS service for such
> > notifications. The spec is nearly ready for the peer review stage, and
> > once people are generally satisfied, we will present it to fd.o. We
> > also have a testcase library and daemon, which are a bit primitive
> > still.

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