KPassiveNotify tool

[David Faure]

On Wednesday 23 February 2005 01:48, Frerich Raabe wrote:
> Moin,
> 
> a while ago I wrote a tiny tool called 'kpassivenotify' which is meant to be 
> used by console applications which want to show a little notification message 
> on the user's desktop. I'm using this for various scripts now (for instance, 
> my kde-build script uses 
> 
> kpassivenotify --timeout 5000 --caption "KDE Build" "Compilation finished"
> 
> to give me information messages in a non-disruptive manner about the progress 
> of the script, without requiring me to monitor the script's output all the 
> time. I was recently made aware that this could be useful for other people as 
> well, hence I polished it a bit and am now ready to publish it. I attached 
> the sources for this tiny tool together with a man page documenting it's 
> behaviour, in case you are curious. I'm planning to commit this to kdebase 
> after KDE 3.4 has been packaged. What I'm not sure about is where to put it, 
> though.
> 
> Does anybody have an opinion where such tools should go? 

Nowhere, since
kdialog --caption "KDE Build" --passivepopup "Compilation finished" 5000
does exactly the same :-)

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