On 12 July 2010 13:08, Ben Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote:

> Except for the aforementioned deficiency in non-GNOME/KDE environments.
>  Hence the need to continue to support aosd-cat until we have a replacement.

Well, notification-daemon and notify-osd don't have a heavy dependency
on GNOME (the only one I see is gconf), I think they could be used on
lxde and similar as well.
I'll try to install them on the live image and see how much space they take.

> I did a brief survey of libnotify in Debian and see nothing that can be
> easily disentangled from the desktop environments, so until a viable
> alternative appears, why not do both?  Use notify-send to send our
> notifications from eeepc-acpi-scripts and support the old aosd-cat scripts
> in eeepc-osd (which we'll eventually kill once a lightweight standalone
> notify daemon shows up).

This would be an alternative, too. A bit more complicated, but feasible.

Cheers,

Luca

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