[Galago-devel] [pynotify] Replace notifications created by another process

[Christian Hammond]

Hi.

There's nothing in place for getting a notification's ID through either
d-bus or pynotify. You would have to somehow share the ID between instances
of your program in order to replace the notification. It's such a rare
usecase that I don't know that it should go into the notification spec (plus
it's prone to abuse and to problems, such as if two notifications shared the
same header text).

What's the goal of the daemon and the python process? Can the process
somehow use the daemon to grab a notification ID for use, or go through the
daemon to emit notifications (allowing the daemon to track the ID)?

Christian

On Dec 2, 2007 4:23 AM, RazZziel <razielmine at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I'm working on a program in Python that can be executed by a
> daemon several times in a second, producing a notification in each
> execution.
>
> Now, each notification is overlapped to the older one, but I would
> like to make each notification update the older one instead, following
> the behaviour obtained by update on pynotify, or by the replaces_id
> fieldd in dcop. Would it be possible to make this work through
> different program instances? For example, a dcop call that detects if
> there is any notification being shown, get its header to see if it's
> mine, get its body and concatenate the new information to the older
> one. Or maybe an undocumented pynotify function.
>
> Greetings
>
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