Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 23rd Dec 2008 20:18 UTC
As part of its initiative to improve the usability of the Linux desktop, Canonical has made a proposal for a desktop notification system for both GNOME and KDE. Mark Shuttleworth announced the proposal on his blog earlier this week. The mockup video shows notification more or less like the 3d party Growl system for Mac OS X. Since we are talking Linux here, the meat is in the implementation details and cross-desktop compatibility.
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2008-03-17
Indeed. The KDE devs were proposing an overhaul based on the galago spec months and months ago (about half a year ago). The galago people apparently didn't want to work with them, nor did it seem to interest people on the gnome side.
Now comes canonical to save the day, and this is "big news". They want someone on the kde side to join them in making a new notification scheme. Where were they all those months ago?
However in some ways this is good for gnome in particular as it probably would have sunk had they actually tried involving the wider gnome community. In general it looks interesting and miles better than what exists now but some aspects are quite insane like missing the ability to dismiss notifications (very gnome-like, *smirk*).