Notifications spec: Icons

[Eugene Gorodinsky]

While on the topic of notifications... I think it would be pretty cool
to have "notification class" field as well. Or something like that.
The idea is to give the user full controll over how notifications are
handled. For example an IM could notify of new messages or when some
user in the contact list changes status. If the IM notifies of these,
the user could then customize the way s/he is notified: e.g. a
notification bubble may be shown or a sound could be played or
anything else the user thinks of (shut down the computer when a
certain download is completed). Has anyone else considered this?

2009/4/3 Bo Thorsen <bo.thorsen at canonical.com>:
> On Friday 03 April 2009 09:26:41 Olivier Goffart wrote:
>> Le Fredag 3 april 2009, Christian Hammond a écrit :
>> > We'll also break in the case of upgrading on a modern distro to a newer
>> > libnotify or notification-daemon. I suppose that could be worked around
>> > by having notification-daemon listen on both namespaces for a while, and
>> > have libnotify first check if the VisualNotifications namespace is being
>> > handled and then falling back on Notifications.
>>
>> This is not an issue,
>> In the libnotify server you can keep the old depracated dbus interface for
>> compatibility,  and add the new one.
>
> I see this as the cleanest way to modify the spec. If we change the way the
> org.freedesktop.Notifications work, it's harder to write a clean implementation
> that supports non-modified applications as well as the new spec. With something
> like org.freedesktop.VisualNotifications, we have a clean start.
>
> Bo.
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