Shared OSD Service for KDE

Aurélien Gâteau aurelien.gateau at canonical.com
Wed May 12 08:10:48 BST 2010


On 12/05/2010 04:10, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On May 11, 2010, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
>> On 11/05/2010 17:54, Lubos Lunak wrote:
>>> Why should an app decide whether to do a notification
>>> about something using OSD or something else instead of simply sending it
>>> to KNotification to deal with it?
>>
>> Because I think showing volume or brightness information in notification
>> popups would look weird. This kind of information does not belong there
>> IMHO.
>
> by default, it would show up in an OSD though .. it would be up to the user to
> choose a different method, such as visual, audio, log file, etc. (or some
> combination thereof... heck, we could do an osd and play a sound, something
> we'd get "for free" using knotify)

OK. So you would introduce another KNotify plugin to implement this? 
Could work this way.

Aurélien




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