[Gossip-dev] Gossip gets libnotify

[CJ van den Berg]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 01:26:35AM +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 23:40 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 16:05 -0500, Brian Pepple wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 20:06 +0100, David Nielsen wrote:
> > > > ons, 22 02 2006 kl. 12:18 -0500, skrev Brian Pepple:
> > > > 
> > > > > I've just about finished modifying it to use the 0.3.x api. I'm just
> > > > > stuck on the a notify_notification_add_action call, and need to look at
> > > > > some more documentation.  Hopefully, I'll get some free time in the next
> > > > > day or so to finish it.
> > > > 
> > > > Brian what is the update on this?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Been fairly busy, and haven't had a chance to finish it yet.
> > 
> > I managed to get Ubuntu Dapper installed over the weekend so I should
> > have a chance to make sure this all works properly. If you upload what
> > you have so far, I will try it out.
> 
> For those not watching the bug, I just committed a variation on Brian's
> patch to support libnotify 0.3.2 or above. For more information see the
> bug report: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332169
> 
> I want to expand the use of libnotify too so it gets exposed for
> subscriptions and some other scenarios. I would be happy to hear any
> thoughts people have on this too.

I tried it out and it's very nice! It needs to be optional though, like the
sounds.

Maybe the sound options should be reorganised to include popup notifications?

e.g instead of these options:
Sound
  - Play sound when messages arrive
  - Disable sounds when busy
  - Disable sounds when away

combine them with popups something like this:

Notifications
  - Notify me when messages arrive
  - Disable notifications when busy
  - Disable notifications when away

Notification Methods
  - Play a sound
  - Popup a window

also, it would probably be a good idea to add
  - Notify me when contacts come online
or perhaps
  - Notify me when contacts become avaliable

It's always difficult to keep the number of configuration options down with
event notifications. Maybe the disable options should be dropped? Does it
make sense to ever turn them off? (ie. to *enable* sounds when away/busy)

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CJ van den Berg

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