Re: linux: desktop notification library?

From	Huibert Bol <huibert.bol@quicknet.nl>
Newsgroups	comp.programming
Subject	Re: linux: desktop notification library?
Date	2011-05-18 19:23 +0200
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Rui Maciel wrote:

> Rui Maciel 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.
>
> As a side note, it appears that libnotify requires a bunch of gnome-
> related libraries just to compile.  Meanwhile, suspect that all libnotify 
> does is basically post DBUS messages.  If that is true then it may be 
> possible to avoid using libnotify and simply interact directly with DBUS.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this?

Not personally, but here's some sample code to get you on your way:
http://people.collabora.com/~alban/telepathy-doc/chapter-basics.html

-- 
Huibert
"Okay... really not something I needed to see."  --Raven

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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? Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell@munted.org.uk> - 2011-05-18 15:15 +0100
    Re: linux: desktop notification library? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-05-18 17:39 +0100
      Re: linux: desktop notification library? Huibert Bol <huibert.bol@quicknet.nl> - 2011-05-18 18:56 +0200
        Re: linux: desktop notification library? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-05-18 18:13 +0100
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    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 18:08 +0100
    Re: linux: desktop notification library? Huibert Bol <huibert.bol@quicknet.nl> - 2011-05-18 19:23 +0200

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