Fwd: Re: Request for Comments: GNOME Notifier

[Sashmit Bhaduri]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 23:02:08 +0200, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak at suse.cz> wrote:
> Dne pá 30. července 2004 18:26 Sébastien Laoût [temporar] napsal(a):
> > Le ven 30/07/2004 à 14:54, Olivier Goffart a écrit :
> >
> > Another concern is that some programs like amaroK or eventwatcher manage
> > there own bubble messages: They create rounded windows than "point" to
> > the systray icon...
> > This is great user point of view, but incompatible with KNotify: users
> > loss the power of the KDE notifier.
> > Could be good if KNotify in KDE4 allow the use of rounded popups and/or
> > baloon popups.
> 
>  KDE4 is no special prerequisite for adding new features to KNotify. People
> doing this instead of having it in their KFoo hidden from the rest of the
> world is. KNotify would be even able to make coffee these days if time spent
> on adding various notifications to various apps would have been be spent on
> it instead.

But KDE4 is a good time to do it-- most of the aforementioned
programs, along with apollon and akregator (which will soon have it's
own bubbles) aren't part of modules that are part of KDE's release
cycles, and thus need this functionality (as it is often a quite
important part of these applications) )with people running a variety
of kdelibs versions. KDE 4.0 is a good time since most third party
apps won't be targetting KDE 3.3 and KDE 4.0, like many apps are
targetting KDE 3.2 and 3.3 today.