Messaging Indicator (was: Notifications: uselessness of)

[Ted Gould]

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 13:49 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 13:11:22 -0500 Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> >On Monday 02 March 2009 12:01:34 pm Scott Kitterman wrote:
> >> Couldn't some kind of indicator about available updates go here so they 
> >aren't hidden from users for up to a week?
> >
> >Or so the KDE users know we need to switch to GNOME?  There's no indicator 
> >plasmoid yet, so Pidgin's functionality is rather broken in KDE right now.
> 
> Does it work better with the orginal libnotify instead of notify-osd?

No, it actually provides a new interface libindicate.  Unfortunately
it's tied to dbus-glib right now as we didn't have a KDE developer to
work on the QT integration.  One started today!  (I'm very excited)

One of the goals of this interface is to provide an easy way for KDE
applications to work on GNOME and vice versa while still providing this
type of functionality.  I really hate that people are forced to choose a
set of programs based on their desktop to avoid loosing functionality of
their favorites.  I hope that we're on a path to users choosing the best
application independent of the desktop they like.

Anyway, sadly not today, but hopefully soon we'll have some KDE support.
Of course that won't make the release, but we'll start looking at
putting it in a PPA for people who are interested as it gets usable.

		--Ted

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