KNotificationItem specification - first draft

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 07 September 2009, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 19:11:31 +0200
>
> Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 07 September 2009, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> > > Marco Martin wrote:
> > > > On Monday 07 September 2009, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> > > >> Hi,
> > > >>
> > > >> I am probably a bit late at this, but thought I would ask anyway.
> > > >>
> > > >> Why did you choose the term "KNotificationItem"? I am afraid
> > > >> this is going to cause confusion with the existing notification
> > > >> systems.
> > > >
> > > > the choice of the name has been a bit painful, it has gone trough
> > > > several renames.
> > > > iirc this was chisen because in gnome and windows the systray is
> > > > already called notification area and we didn't want to confuse
> > > > the current implementation with the protocol, since the last goal
> > > > is to remove some of the icons from the system tray, probably
> > > > representing the items of "application" category in the taskbar,
> > > > this would make the "SystemTray" term less meaningful
> > >
> > > I understand the reasons, but I still think this is confusing. Is
> > > it too late to change the name, or can it still be brainstormed?
> >
> > not until 4.4.0 would mean to break and unbreak the whole trunk again
> > but oh, well, got used to :)
> > but has to be -really- worth it and i don't see really better names
> > right now, systemtray is even more problematic
>
> BTW, I wonder about the use of the org.freedesktop namespace. I know
> this is only a draft but assuming we try to follow this new
> freedesktop.org specification process now (which I'd like go through
> one or two more revision threads because I remember I disagreed with a
> few points), then I guess it'd be better not to use org.freedesktop
> until the spec is adopted by others.

yes, the actual implementation uses org.kde right now,
this is just for the document, i can change it there as well, but anyways 
until it's not adopted it's just an unofficial draft..

>   - Jannis


-- 
Marco Martin