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
you're grouping the kui viewer plasmoid with the notification plasmoids though they both look the same.
True that they are more interactive, but to me it seems silly to have a message come up and not (at least be possible) to interact with it, Really does one really agonize over the decision of whether or not to press the button?
But this is about the underlying gallago spec which kde has already implemented plus some modifications.
These notifications are merely a matter of preference.
If canonical wanted to do something really useful, they would commit to help clean up the system tray to be the way it is meant to be...persistent notifications and no other junk (idiocy of minimising programs to the system tray)
Edited 2008-12-24 01:18 UTC