Star Canonical Announces New Notification System for GNOME, KDE
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 23rd Dec 2008 20:18 UTC
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu 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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RE[3]: KDE 4.2 already has it
by KAMiKAZOW on Wed 24th Dec 2008 23:47 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: KDE 4.2 already has it"
KAMiKAZOW
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you're grouping the kui viewer plasmoid with the notification plasmoids though they both look the same.

I'm grouping what's now grouped by the KDE project. The progress "window" of a download is now the same thing as a "New mail" notification.

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?

Obviously the Canonical guys have a different take than you.

But this is about the underlying gallago spec which kde has already implemented plus some modifications.

Maybe you are talking about Galago, but Shuttleworth is not. His blog posting focuses on the usability side of things.

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