Please review Snorenotify (Finish Incubating)

Hannah von Reth vonreth at kde.org
Thu Nov 19 13:32:24 GMT 2015


On plasma, plasma-desktop provides that service, on Gnome a different service.So installing the service is only interesting on Windows or mac where there is no such service registered or for testing on Linux. The service registers as a notification service which then is able to receive free desktop notifications and display them using a backend. 

> Subject: Re: Please review Snorenotify (Finish Incubating)
> To: vonreth at kde.org; kde-core-devel at kde.org
> From: kensington at gentoo.org
> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 23:14:23 +1100
> 
> On 19/11/15 09:48, Hannah von Reth wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > Mario guided me until now through the incubation process and we think it
> > is time to move Snorenotify from playground to extragear.
> > Snorenotify is a notification framework supporting Linux, Windows and
> > Mac OSX.
> > It is not meant to replace Knotifications, it is more targeted on Qt
> > applications without dependency to the plasma desktop, so it might
> > become a backend for Knotifications.
> > 
> > I guess you can find the most important information here
> > https://community.kde.org/Incubator/Projects/Snorenotify.
> > 
> > Besides Snorenotify there is also Snoretoast, a sub project of
> > Snorenotify, https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=snoretoast.git.
> > Snoretoast  is a command line application and used within Snorenotify
> > for the Windows Toast notifications.
> > The application can only be build using the Microsoft compiler.
> > 
> > So it would be great if Snorenotify could become a official KDE library
> > and maybe even a framework someday.
> > Currently it is used by Quassel and Tomahawk but hopefully more will
> > start to use it soon.
> > 
> > So please review Snorenotify.
> > 
> > If you find the idea of Snorenotify useful or you fancy notifications,
> > like I do, feel free to contribute ;)  or start to use Snorenotify.
> > 
> > Thanks :)
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Hannah
> 
> Is it intentional that org.freedesktop.Notifications.service is not
> installed by default?
> 
 		 	   		  
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-core-devel/attachments/20151119/77e29bd2/attachment.htm>


More information about the kde-core-devel mailing list