On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:39:08 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:

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> Frederic Crozat wrote:
>> Le Thu, 24 Jul 2003 02:48:45 +0200, Olivier Blin a �crit :
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>>
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>I've started a GNOME applet that notifies when a urpmi media has been
> updated.
>>>For now, it only supports ftp media whitout proxy.
>>>I may write a KDE version soon.
>>
>>
>> This is WRONG.. Use the Notification Area specification
>> (www.freedesktop.org) to do that, it will work for both KDE and GNOME (and
>> you really don't want to do an applet for that..)
>>
> 
> Fred, do you know if the "balloon messages" mentioned in
> http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/systemtray-spec/0.1-onehtml/#balloon
> work in GNOME or KDE?
> If so, it would be a real win to support this, and be able to have
> balloon messages such as "you have not configured an update source ...",
> or "could not contact update source" or "New updates available".

Not yet in GNOME. I don't know for KDE..

RH is working around that by using different icons (big red stuff) and
animations..

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Frederic Crozat
MandrakeSoft


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