[KDE4] KNotification

Richard Moore richmoore44 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 18 12:46:48 BST 2005


On 9/18/05, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote: 
> 
> sorry, let me try again .. i'd like to have plasma be able to present
> notifications as they appear to the user in a unified and consistent 
> manner.
> the FD.o notification spec allows for this, but i too find that spec 
> rather
> limited in nature. if we add additional features, such as the ability to 
> say
> "show a button labelled Foo" or "show this QWidget* in the notification" i
> hope to not have that degrade the ability for plasma to render and manage 
> the
> display of that notification. if the widget is out of process for plasma,
> then we may have to use XEmbed which is something i'm trying to limit as 
> much
> as possible but which may indeed be workable. just something i'm trying to
> keep in mind here for kde4.

 KPassivePopup allows applications to make its view an abitrary QWidget (see 
the example in the docs of how to have a Yes/No popup. However when it is 
used via KNotify the facilities offered are limited to those provided in the 
KNotify API.
 Rich.
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