Notifications spec: Icons

[Bo Thorsen]

On Thursday 02 April 2009 17:42:29 Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 of April 2009, Bo Thorsen wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > There have been a bunch of emails going back and forth between the KDE
> > and GNOME people about the notifications spec. It seems everyone wants to
> > have a common spec instead of the two current implementations (galago and
> > knotify). I think Enlightenment also have an implementation of galago,
> > but I'm not certain of this.
> >
> > The goal for these discussions is a single spec that's based on galago,
> > but modified to suit the needs of more groups.
>
>  Could you please clarify this sentence? Are you saying that this goal is
> from the previous discussions, or that it is the goal of the discussion you
> have started? Or actually, either way, could you first start at the
> beginning and not just say "it was decided in private discussions that XYZ,
> can we now discuss this implementation detail" ? Notifications haven't been
> discussed on this list for ages, at least not anything that would lead to
> any result, and the private discussions that I was CC-ed in also mostly
> only seemed to agree that something should be done but then mostly died
> out.

I read through as many emails, blogs and discussions from the KDE and galago 
people as I could find on the net, and had concluded that there was an 
agreement that a modified version of galago would be the best bet. If this 
assumption was incorrect, I'm very sorry. But we have to start somewhere, if 
we will have a unified spec for visual notifications, and I have yet to see a 
single statement against a unified spec.

>  So, before this discussion actually starts, could it be first said what
> will be actually discussed? Specifically, I don't remember any clear
> conclusion along the lines of "galago should be the ultimate spec apps
> should use for all notifications", and even if it's just because I somehow
> missed it, then I think it should be explictly said here. I hope Aaron will
> not mind me quoting him from one mail (you can clearly see it is from him
> because of the missing capitalization :) ), as I think it nicely shows up
> some problems with your apparent assuming that galago would just somehow
> replace knotify:
> [snip]

I have in no way tried to push galago as it is now. There are problems in it, 
and I highlighted a list of them from just a single piece (icons). There are 
other areas where galago and knotify differs, and I will send more mails about 
them later so we can resolve these.

Again, we have to start somewhere, and we do have a published spec in galago 
that we can work on and try to reach a common understanding of what is 
necessary, and then later what should be in the spec.

Bo.