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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Oh c'mon! As someone who actually knows Growl as well as KDE 4.2beta I can tell you that there are some huge differences. For starters: KDE's is much more interactive. There are Stop and Pause buttons for longer operations like downloads, there are View and Ignore buttons for incoming chat messages, and so on.
Canonical's Growl imitation will have -- at least that seems to be the plan -- no interaction at all.