Re: KNotify-considerations for frameworks

2011-09-25 Thread Olivier Goffart
On Friday 23 September 2011 14:24:54 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: [...] now .. here's what i got from your email, please correct me if i'm wrong: the big question is this: should we have a central daemon, or not? That is not how i understood Sune's email: I understood that he wanted to extract the

Re: KNotify-considerations for frameworks

2011-09-24 Thread George Kiagiadakis
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Lubos Lunak l.lu...@suse.cz wrote: On Friday 23 of September 2011, George Kiagiadakis wrote: I agree with parts of this plan, but not all of them. I think we need to study more the use cases. Let's consider a few examples. ... 2) Your music player informs you

Re: KNotify-considerations for frameworks

2011-09-24 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:26:41 +0300 schrieb George Kiagiadakis kiagiadakis.geo...@gmail.com: Sounds a bit unrealistic, although I must admit it could be useful if you don't have a taskbar and you also have hearing problems... But still, think of the minimize event. Configure a popup that says

Re: KNotify-considerations for frameworks

2011-09-23 Thread George Kiagiadakis
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk wrote: On 2011-09-22, Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk wrote: Currently, it is a quite complex framework that is hard to debug for the users of knotify (the application developers). It seems a bit overengineered, at least compared

Re: KNotify-considerations for frameworks

2011-09-23 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, September 22, 2011 22:17:09 Sune Vuorela wrote: I'm considering doing some work on the knotify-stuff for the kde frameworks. cool :) Currently, it is a quite complex framework that is hard to debug for the users of knotify (the application developers). It seems a bit

Re: KNotify-considerations for frameworks

2011-09-23 Thread Lubos Lunak
On Friday 23 of September 2011, George Kiagiadakis wrote: I agree with parts of this plan, but not all of them. I think we need to study more the use cases. Let's consider a few examples. ... 2) Your music player informs you of the next song that is going to be played. You most likely want a

KNotify-considerations for frameworks

2011-09-22 Thread Sune Vuorela
Hi I'm considering doing some work on the knotify-stuff for the kde frameworks. This involves the KNotification class and the KNotify daemon and related classes. I started hacking a bit on it in Randa, but have ended up scratchig my work and starting over. http://pusling.com/blog/?p=200

Re: KNotify-considerations for frameworks

2011-09-22 Thread Albert Astals Cid
A Dijous, 22 de setembre de 2011, Sune Vuorela vàreu escriure: Hi I'm considering doing some work on the knotify-stuff for the kde frameworks. This involves the KNotification class and the KNotify daemon and related classes. I started hacking a bit on it in Randa, but have ended up

Re: KNotify-considerations for frameworks

2011-09-22 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-09-22, Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk wrote: ...and of course, bits of my drafts fell out when doing the last reorder of things. Hi I'm considering doing some work on the knotify-stuff for the kde frameworks. This involves the KNotification class and the KNotify daemon and related

Re: KNotify-considerations for frameworks

2011-09-22 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-09-22, Albert Astals Cid aa...@kde.org wrote: This means that as a user if the developer decides to use a Popup I can no longer configure the application to do nothing? Or to play a sound? No. It just means that the responsibility is handed over to the application developer if they

Re: Re: KNotify-considerations for frameworks

2011-09-22 Thread Albert Astals Cid
A Dijous, 22 de setembre de 2011, Sune Vuorela vàreu escriure: On 2011-09-22, Albert Astals Cid aa...@kde.org wrote: This means that as a user if the developer decides to use a Popup I can no longer configure the application to do nothing? Or to play a sound? No. It just means that the

Re: KNotify-considerations for frameworks

2011-09-22 Thread Harald Sitter
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk wrote: Consider doing some classes for Phonon to do audio notifications for those who needs that or alternatively get a cross desktop audio notification dbus spec, just like the galago spec and get the workspaces to implement it.

Re: KNotify-considerations for frameworks

2011-09-22 Thread Eike Hein
On 9/23/2011 2:36 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: I disagree, the fact that *all* KDE applications open the same dialog when you go to settings-configure notifications is a big plus. It adds consistency to the user experience and even if the dialog could be designed better (it works for me but