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This entry was written by Jeff Waugh, posted on December 1, 2006 at 09:19, filed under del.icio.us. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. John Stowers
    Posted December 1, 2006 at 11:02 | Permalink

    Jeff,

    One of the ideas on my long list of things to hack on is to combine GHOSD[1] with libnotify. That way libnotify could support transparent OSD type popups in addiion to the normal ones.

    However everytime I get the motivation to hack on such a thing someone brings up that libnotify should be in the platform (which I agree with) and then gets shot down by saying “but it cant go in the platform until their are guidelines or else everyone will abuse it” (which I disagree with) - sounds like chicken-and-egg to me.

    John

    [1] http://neugierig.org/software/ghosd/

  2. Jerry Haltom
    Posted December 1, 2006 at 11:05 | Permalink

    I totally think those transparent messages are annoying.

    I would much prefer using the status bar for stuff like this.

  3. Daniel Axelrod
    Posted December 4, 2006 at 16:40 | Permalink

    Growl http://growl.info/ is a BSD-licensed implementation of this idea for the MacOS.

    Even though much of the code is likely MacOS specific, Growl is an excellent reference for matters of design - how notifications should look, act, etc.

    Its API and bindings are also fantastic, and it would be wonderful to see other notification managers adopt it.

  4. Daniel Axelrod
    Posted December 4, 2006 at 16:42 | Permalink

    Sorry, when I said “adopt it”, I meant “adopt the API”. http://growl.info/documentation/developer/