Hi Folks Following on from Brian's postings about on screen notifications for the deaf user, I wonder if this notifier could be changed to act as a useful tool in the visual notifier space especially as they seem to be aiming to get a number of apps to issue notifications properly?
Apologies if people are already aware. === New Notification === Thanks to the concerted efforts of Martin Pitt, Sebastien Bacher and several others, notify-osd and several related components landed in Jaunty last week. Notify-OSD handles both application notifications and keyboard special keys like brightness and volume. MPT has posted an overview of the conceptual framework for attention management at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDesignGuidelines, which puts ephemeral notification into context as just one of several distinct tools that applications can use when they dont have the focus but need to make users aware of something. Thats a draft, and when its at 1.0 well move it to a new site which will host design patterns on Canonical.com. There is also a detailed specification for our implementation of the notification display agent, notify-osd, which can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD and which defines not only the expected behavior of notify-osd but also all of the consequential updates we need to make across the packages in main an universe to ensure that those applications use notification and other techniques consistently. There are at least 35 apps that need tweaking, and there may well be others! If you find an app that isnt using notifications elegantly, please add it to the notification design guidelines page, and if you file a bug on the package, please tag it notifications so we can track these issues in a single consistent way. Together with notify-osd, weve uploaded a new panel indicator which is used to provide a way to respond to messaging events, such as email and IRC pings. If someone IMs you, then you should see an ephemeral notification, and the messaging indicator will give you a way to respond immediately. Same for email. Pidgin and Evolution are the primary focuses of the work, over time well broaden that to the full complement of IM and email apps in the archive - patches welcome. There will be rough patches. Apps which dont comply with the FreeDesktop.org spec and send actions on notifications even when the display agent says it does not support them, will have their notifications translated into alerts. Thanks very much to all involved! And thanks to David Barth, Mirco Muller and Ted Gould who lead the development of notify-osd and the related messaging indicator. There is a screen shot at the link. http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/265 Ian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Willie Walker Sent: 02 March 2009 20:16 To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: HFOSS Visual Audio Hi Vincent: Thanks for the info/pointer. Neat - looks like libcanberra has a way to bind textual descriptions to sound events: http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/gtkdoc/libcanberra-canberra. html#CA-PROP-EVENT-DESCRIPTION--CAPS I would be interested in talking with Lennert (CC'd) about this. Lennert, would it be possible to create something that could sniff the canberra traffic and allow us to be notified when something is being played and to extract the [con]textual information associated with it? Will Vincent Untz wrote: > Hey, > > (replying late) > > Le jeudi 19 février 2009, à 13:58 -0600, Bryen a écrit : >> 1) Allow users to determine what applications send visual events. If I >> was listening to music, I wouldn't want visual effects happening >> constantly. >> >> 2) Allow for customization of visual event effects. This is important, >> because like myself, 10% of the Deaf population also lives with Usher >> Syndrome (visual impairment. I think the best approach is to create a >> plugin type environment where the general community can contribute by >> creating unique effects. Examples would be: >> --Screen dimming flicker >> --Hard screen flicker >> --Running lights around the border of the monitor >> --Graphic popup in designated area of screen (for me, I miss having >> events pop up in the middle of my screen like on Windows.) >> --Animated events, such as a snowball splat. Sounds crazy, but its a >> fun approach. > > You should probably talk to Lennart about libcanberra (the library used > for sound events). It's designed with accessibility in mind, and I'm > sure he'd be excited to see someone work on a accessibility "theme". > > I can put you in contact with him, if needed. > > Vincent > _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
