Shared OSD Service for KDE

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While I like the idea, I think the current implementation wastes a but much 
space (icon is over to the progress bar, not beside it) and the progress bar 
is also not the Plasma one.

PS: I added plasma-devel at kde.org as additional recipient.

Am Montag 10 Mai 2010, 09:40:01 schrieb Ozan Çağlayan:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been working to create a centralised way of rendering OSD widgets upon
> request for KDE4. Finally I wrote a KDED service which uses KOSD[0] to
> render OSD widgets.
> 
> KOSD is a small KDE application which draws nice, polished and
> plasma-themed OSD with progress bars. I decoupled the Widget class from it
> and rewrote it as a KDED service.
> 
> Currently KMix and the brightness patch of Felix Geyer are adjusted to make
> D- Bus calls when they need to show a notification.
> 
> I don't know whether to implement this sort of thing as a KDED daemon makes
> sense but at least it works and we're using it in Pardus 2009.
> 
> Code is at:
>   https://svn.pardus.org.tr/uludag/trunk/kde/kded_kosd/
> 
> Screenshots:
>   http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~ozan/ivir/kosd1.png
>   http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~ozan/ivir/kosd2.png
> 
> [0]:
>   http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KOSD?content=81457
> 
> Regards,
> 
> ---
> Ozan Çağlayan
> TUBITAK/UEKAE - Pardus Linux
> http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng