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

[Sebastian Silva]

Sorry I hadn't read the proposal in detail.

So if I understand correctly, if a regular X11 application emits a 
gi.repository.Notification, it will display correctly in Sugar?

That's great, kudos on the work.

Sebastian 

El mié, 26 de mar 2014 a las 10:21 AM, Martin Abente 
<martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com> escribió:
> 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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