Notification spec issue: Ability to assign an icon *and* an image to a notification

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 25 June 2009, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> On 06/25/2009 02:18 PM, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> > Well, from various existing software examples:
> >
> > Visual
>
> Obviously the current spec handles this.  Canonical's extensions to
> display things like volume levels is useful, but still works within the
> confines of the current spec, with extensions.
>
> > Audio
>
> Couldn't I implement a notification daemon that used text-to-speech to
> read the notification text aloud?  Or are you talking about something else?

sound themes.
for many notification types is better a short and unobtrusive sound that a 
long mechanized text-to-speech thinghie, that is useful of course for 
accessibility, but can be annoying for general use

> > Logging (good for servers too)
>
> The notifications spec mentions this usage, and I don't see anything
> keeping someone from implementing a notification daemon that also does
> logging (or only does logging).
>
> > SMS (mostly servers)
>
> Send notifications to a SMS gateway.  Don't want a lot of spam?  Filter
> by the category hint, the urgency hint, the Notify() method's "app_name"
> parameter, or some combination.
>
> > IM (mostly servers)
>
> Same as SMS.
>
> > You can actually see a very good example of the shortcomings of a
> > visual-only spec if you look at Growl on OS X.  Many programs use it for
> > visual notifications, and then have to implement their own notifications
> > to be delivered via audio or one of the other above methods.  Wouldn't
> > it be nice if you had a spec where the user could define how they wanted
> > *all* types of their notifications to be delivered?
>
> I'm still not seeing how that's not possible with the current spec...  I
> suspect I'm just missing out on understanding a particular use case you
> have in mind, but I can't seem to figure it out.

what i don't think is possible now is to choose what kind of notification i 
want actually show and what just log, what to show and sms and so forth.

Cheers,
Marco Martin

>
> 	-brian
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