KPassiveNotify tool

[Lubos Lunak]

On Wednesday 23 of 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?

 /dev/null . See kdialog --passivepopup for details.

> I noticed that 
> kdialog got it's own kdebase/kdialog subdirectory, but I'm a little
> hesitant to grant that to kpassivenotify. :-)
>
> - Frerich

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