On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:41 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > >> I have tried Pidgin and sent myself messages from another computer/IM >> account... and the message tray does not act the same way as it does >> when your using empathy. With empathy, you are able to recieve msgs and >> reply to messages straight from the message tray at the bottom instead of >> opening up your messenger window.... > > Well, this is using telepathy in the background which is the messaging > backend of empathy and as such it is indeed tightly integrated with > empathy.
Exactly. Empathy specific code has been removed long ago, replaced with Telepathy. Thus any application relying on Telepathy (Empathy, Kopete, Gnome Games...) gets automatic integration with Gnome Shell. >> Can anybody confirm support for "other ' alternate well known >> messengers/music players for intergration in gnome-shell???? > > In short, write a patch to your favourite application to integrate with > gnome-shell. Nobody limits the applications that support gnome-shell but > as of now only very few applications gained support. > I am not an expert in the details of the message tray but I guess about > 90% can be done in the application by supporting the new protocol while > some things might require gnome-shell extensions. Actually, the protocol is not new, it is the same DBus interface every desktop environment uses (org.freedesktop.Notifications), the same exported by notification-daemon and osd-notify, for example. Some hacks are applied for specific applications (XChat only, I suppose), but nothing else. (This only applies to external notifications, not those generated inside the shell, by startup-notification, telepathy and extensions) > Regards, > Johannes > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > Giovanni _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
