Gnome Notifications

[Trent Lloyd]

Hi Lukas,

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10:36, Lukas Sabota wrote:
> That's great!  That is just what I was looking for.  Do you know if
> there are python bindings for libnotify?

notification-daemon uses dbus, and the python dbus bindings have awesome 
introspection which means you can pretty much use it like an object (assuming 
notification-daemon supports the introspection stuff)

For example code, you way wish to look at service-discover-applet which is in 
python and makes some notifications. 
(http://0pointer.de/~sebest/service-discovery-applet-0.3.1.tar.gz)

Cheers,
Trent

>
> God bless,
> Lukas
>
> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 17:56 -0800, Scott Robinson wrote:
> > libnotify-bin: /usr/bin/notify-send
> >
> > Scott.
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 08:45:50PM -0500, Lukas Sabota wrote:
> > >   First off, I'd like to say that I am VERY pleased with the GNOME
> > > notifications in Dapper.  They are very professional looking, and fit
> > > with your current theme.  Awesome.
> > >   But, I have yet to find an easy way to display notifications.  It
> > > would be so useful to have a program that worked something like this:
> > >
> > > gnome-msg -i <icon pathname> <message Text>
> > >
> > > It's very nice that many gnome applications are somewhat easily bash
> > > scriptable (Gaim, Rhythmbox, and others).  To compliment these scripts,
> > > it would be nice to be able to comminicate messages to the user.
> > >   Look at this for example:  Let's say I have a backup program that is
> > > run every day at 7pm.  I want to communicate whether it failed or
> > > worked to the user.  Currently, the best solution is just to leave a
> > > log file and hope the user checks it.  If there was a gnome-msg program
> > > or similar, the user could easily be notified.
> > >   Does such a program exist?  Does anyone else agree that it would be
> > > very beneficial for the GNOME desktop?  I don't think this would be
> > > very difficult to implement.  I would be willing to work on it if some
> > > people could give me some direction.
> > >
> > > God Bless,
> > > Lukas
> > >
> > >
> > >
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