Respond directly to incoming chats

[Lasath Fernando]

Hmm.. I was beginning to think we shouldn't replace KNotification
completely. Because then we'd be losing a lot of functionality
(stacking notifications, being able to see past notifications etc).

Perhaps we can patch KNotification to allow us to put a custom
notification widget in there?

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:02 PM, David Edmundson
<david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Lasath Fernando <mail at lasath.org> wrote:
>> Hey All,
>>
>> A few minutes ago on IRC, we came up with an awesome Idea. To replace
>> the Knotification that pops up on an incoming message with a widget,
>> that allows you to respond directly from it. A bit like GNOME does
>> atm.
>> http://lxnews.org/2011/01/08/gnome-shell-notifications-explained/
>>
>> I was told to start a thread in the ML rather than just starting work
>> on it, so here I am.
>>
>> PS: Here's a log of our chat
>> http://paste.kde.org/94933/
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Lasath
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>
> On the technical side, I think what we want is to make a Plasma
> Dataengine that acts as a Text Channel Observer. I can guide Lasath
> through this - should be super easy thanks to the new
> SimpleMessageObserver class.
>
> The immediate difficulty with this is that it will only work when the
> (normal) TextUi is active as this acts as the handler. As soon as you
> close the chat window, the channel would close and you can't reply to
> the message.
> Also I'm not 100% sure on whether a textChannel observer can send
> messages. The documentation doesn't say either way.
>
> Maybe it should be a handler, that would solve these issues, but then
> it will get into 'fights' with the normal Text UI as to which one
> takes the chat initially, and prevent us from ever running both
> simultaneously for a channel, which we would still need if we are
> using it for notifications.
>
> I wonder how Gnome 3 works.
>
> We also have the minor problem that it becomes now a lot harder to
> suppress notifications if you already have the TextUI as the active
> window, though we can deal with that when the time comes.
>
> Discuss.
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