[Telepathy] Requestotron use-cases, part 2

[Simon McVittie]

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On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 at 15:23:59 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote:
> My special use case would be using Totem, enjoying a movie, and a
> plugin that would get IM messages to its fullscreen window, possibly
> just like a news ticker.  Then I would notice important messages,
> pause the video, un-fullscreen it, click on the blinking empathy icon
> and answer.

I think that's just a special case of the blinking Empathy icon, but I
see your point that there should be some extensibility to the way in
which you're notified of new channels/new events.

(My inclination would be to just use the Galago/fd.o notification spec,
as implemented by libnotify - then this just becomes an implementation
detail of the notification daemon, "make sure notification bubbles
appear over the top of full-screen applications". Perhaps I'm
over-simplifying, but on the other hand, my approach would ensure that
IMs, gnome-power-manager "low battery" warnings, etc. all automatically
gain the same functionality.)

    Simon
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