Knotify and standard desktop notifications

[Rui Maciel]

Hi,

I've been looking to implement some sort of desktop notification on a small pet project but so far the only thing that I've found was libnotify, which appears to be based on a non-standard specification[1]. So, is there any standard, desktop-independent way to present users with passive popups notifying them of specific events, such as those used to inform? And, more importantly, does KNotify support it? If it does, what standard does it follow and where can I get the specification?

Thanks in advance,
Rui Maciel

[1] http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/0.9/index.html

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[Pino Toscano]

Hi,

Alle venerdì 20 maggio 2011, Rui Maciel ha scritto:
> I've been looking to implement some sort of desktop notification on a
> small pet project but so far the only thing that I've found was
> libnotify, which appears to be based on a non-standard
> specification[1]. So, is there any standard, desktop-independent
> way to present users with passive popups notifying them of specific
> events, such as those used to inform? And, more importantly, does
> KNotify support it?

Yes, use the KNotification class, part of kdeui:
http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-
apidocs/kdeui/html/classKNotification.html

> If it does, what standard does it follow and
> where can I get the specification?

The knotify daemon should support some version (I guess the latest) of
the notification freedesktop specs; but usually you don't have to worry
about that, knotify will be adapted to support new versions/features of
those specs, pretty transparently from your (= application using
KNotification) point of view.

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Pino Toscano