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Re: linux: desktop notification library?

From Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc, comp.programming, comp.unix.programmer
Subject Re: linux: desktop notification library?
Date 2011-05-18 16:53 +0100
Message-ID <8739kc9f8s.fsf@sapphire.mobileactivedefense.com> (permalink)
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Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> writes:
> At Wed, 18 May 2011 13:29:22 +0100 Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there any library that handles desktop notification that is independent 
>> of any desktop environment?  I've stumbled on libnotify[1] but it appear 
>> to be tied to GNOME.
>
> There isn't one.  One of the *great* things about Linux and UNIX, in
> addition to the fact that users are not tied to one specific desktop
> environment (or to using *any* 'desktop environment' at all).

In line with a historical joke: This will be fixed in some future
Ubuntu release.

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linux: desktop notification library? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-05-18 13:29 +0100
  Re: linux: desktop notification library? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-05-18 10:33 -0500
    Re: linux: desktop notification library? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-05-18 16:53 +0100
    Re: linux: desktop notification library? Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid> - 2011-05-18 18:02 +0200
      Re: linux: desktop notification library? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2011-05-18 16:43 +0000
      Re: linux: desktop notification library? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-05-18 11:56 -0500
    Re: linux: desktop notification library? Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net> - 2011-05-18 18:23 +0100
      Re: linux: desktop notification library? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-05-18 19:21 +0100
        Re: linux: desktop notification library? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-05-18 14:11 -0500
          Re: linux: desktop notification library? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-05-20 12:03 +0100
            Re: linux: desktop notification library? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-05-20 08:08 -0500
        Re: linux: desktop notification library? Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net> - 2011-05-18 20:28 +0100
          Re: linux: desktop notification library? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-05-20 12:08 +0100

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