KNotify (was Re: Resurrecting KMilo?)

[Olivier Goffart]

Le jeudi 21 août 2008, Aurélien Gâteau a écrit :
> Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > On Wednesday 20 of August 2008, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> >> I believe KNotify is a different beast.
> >
> >  So that is the reason why everybody ignores it? Well, then let me say
> > that I think you're mistaken. Notifying the user about a different
> > volume, brightness, backlight or current track is, well, notifications.
> >
> >> From what I understand, it's more for fire-and-forget usage: show a
> >> message and carry on.
> >
> >  Yes and no. You can use it that way, but why it would have all those
> > feedback signals otherwise?
> >
> >> I don't  think one can show a progress bar with it.
> >
> >  Since there is support for updating data such as the text or pixmap, it
> > clearly can show progress. Maybe not a progress bar as such, but is it
> > really more work to add than to roll your own duplicate solution?
> > Notifications are not supposed to be complicated JumboJet cockpits
> > anyway.
>
> Ok, I was not aware KNotify was able to update the data it shows. I
> deduced what is possible with it based on how I have seen it used. I
> haven't looked at the API.
> My initial suggestion was to centralize the way we do osd display in
> kdelibs rather than having each app creating its own frameless widgetry.
> If this can be done with some work on KNotify, I am all for it.

Yes, KNotify could be used for that.
A notification 'volume changed' for example.

Now it's true that you can only display rich-text and a pixmap and not doing 
complex widget. But i guess this would be enough for lot of things.

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