Re: Desktop bubble notifications [Was: Re: Add function to make frame topmost?]

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Stephen Eilert <address@hidden> wrote:
> I can't see it mentioned anywhere, so forgive-me if it was discussed already.
>
> I have been using for quite some time todochiku.el, which provides
> notification for Windows, Linux (via notify-send) and OSX (using
> Growl).
>
> --Stephen


Hi Stephen, thanks and yes we have seen it. The /wait switch for
growlnotify that I have suggested at the Growl discussion group is
meant for such a solution.

See here for the suggestion:

http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss/browse_thread/thread/486fc7fe089f9ed8/87504a7a822e14a9?show_docid=87504a7a822e14a9


> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:29 PM, David De La Harpe Golden
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>>
>>> What more could be done that way than would be possible if
>>> growlnotify.exe had a /wait switch?
>>
>> Remembering that I'm not familiar with growl-for-windows, but in the api
>> docs it looks like there's the possibility to just register callbacks
>> directly (surely handier?), set custom attributes, and get fine-grained
>> errors back.
>>
>> I did say "especially on fd.o": libnotify has a lot of stuff not exposed
>> through its notify-send, like multiple actions ( "Chat|Ignore"), possibility
>> for association with specific applications widgets and systray icons, and
>> support for updating the message of the notification*. (growl-for-windows
>> doesn't currently do several of those in the first place as far as I can see
>> (could well be wrong)).
>>
>> [debian package python-notify has a bunch of examples in
>> /usr/share/doc/python-notify/examples ]
>>
>>
>> *
>> import pynotify
>> import time
>>
>> pynotify.init("Countdown")
>> n = pynotify.Notification("Uh oh","...")
>> n.show()
>> for i in range(10,0,-1):
>>    time.sleep(1)
>>    n.update("Uh oh", "%s..." % i)
>>    n.show()
>> n.update("Oh No!", "<b>BANG</b>")
>> n.show()
>>
>>
>>
>>
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