[Sugar-devel] New method for Activity class to send notifications

[Martin Abente]

Hello Sebastian,

The notification back-end is already a subset of freedesktop notification
definition. That is something we had in Sugar since a long time. We just
added some other missing parts (displaying subject and body).

But, for the front-end, If you look at Gary's design, you will see that is
not the typical independent bubble UI component, as it groups notifications
according to some context (ie., when is an activity).

So, the motivation behind this method is (as you also suggest) to add some
sugar syntax to facilitate its usage for activity developers.

Having explained that, any recommendation for the name? :)

Saludos!
tch.




On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Sebastian Silva <sebastian at fuentelibre.org
> wrote:

> Hi Martin,
>
> What about using this:
> https://developer.gnome.org/notification-spec/ ?
>
> I really think we should be moving towards FreeDesktop standards instead
> of rolling our own.
>
> Currently it would look like this, or you can add some syntax sugar to it:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
> from gi.repository import Notify
> Notify.init ("Hello world")
> Hello=Notify.Notification.new ("Hello world","This is an example
> notification.","dialog-information")
> Hello.show ()
>
> El mié, 26 de mar 2014 a las 7:40 AM, Martin Abente <
> martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com> escribió:
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> We recently landed a messages notifications feature, based on Gary's
> designs [1]. One of our GCI 2013 hackers, Sam Parkinson, is has sent the
> bits to enable activities to send notifications too, as in Gary's design.
>
> His work is almost done [2,3,4], but it introduces a new method to the
> base Activity class, therefore I wanted your opinions regarding the name of
> this method, the current options are [4]:
>
> * send_notification
> * add_notification
> * shell_notify
> * sugar_notify
>
>
> Thanks for your time!
> tch.
>
> Refs:
> 1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Notifications
> 2. https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/301
> 3. https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/300
> 4. https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/114
>
>
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