Orage: notifications?

[Mathias Brodala]

Hello Juha.

juha, 26.01.2007 15:16:
> Mathias Brodala kirjoitti:
>> juha, 26.01.2007 07:12:
>>   
>>> Mathias Brodala kirjoitti:
>>>     
>>>> I’m not sure if I’m missing something, but shouldn’t Orage offer notifications
>>>> (via libnotify for example) when an event is about to start? But I can’t find
>>>> something like that the settings dialog.
>>>>       
>>> You can find and define these notifications in alarm tab
>>> in appointment window. Setting the alarm time non zero
>>> should cause a window to appear before the event start.
>>>     
>> OK, tried that but no window appears, although the middle column says „AnB“,
>> which should mean visual notification, no repeat and busy according to the
>> description.
>>
>>   
> I assume you are using Xfce 4.4 (with Orage 4.4)?

No, not yet. Still using RC2 of Xfce 4.4.

> Do you see any messages from Orage?
> Either in the terminal, if you started it manually
> (recommended in this situation to better see messages)

No messages whatsoever; Orage immediately forks itself from the terminal.

> or in
> ~/.xsession-errors
> if you started Orage as part of the Xfce start.

There are some informative messages but nothing really useful:

> $ grep Orage .xsession-errors
> ** Message: Orage **: Too small icon size, using static icon
> ** Message: Orage **: Build alarm list: Processed 0 events.
> DOUBLE-CLICK: 447 --> -1 THRESHOLD: 8 --> -1 ** Message: Orage **: NEW appointment: 20070119
> ** Message: Orage **: Added: Orage-20070119T143128Z-1000 at core2
> ** Message: Orage **: Build alarm list: Processed 1 events.
> ** Message: Orage **: Build alarm list: Processed 1 events.
> ** Message: Orage **: Build alarm list: Processed 1 events.
> ** Message: Orage **: UPDATE appointment: Orage-20070119T143128Z-1000 at core2
> ** Message: Orage **: Modified: Orage-20070119T143128Z-1000 at core2
> ** Message: Orage **: UPDATE appointment: Orage-20070119T143128Z-1000 at core2
> ** Message: Orage **: Removed: Orage-20070119T143128Z-1000 at core2
> ** Message: Orage **: Build alarm list: Processed 0 events.
> ** Message: Orage **: Build alarm list: Processed 0 events.
> ** Message: Orage **: Build alarm list: Processed 0 events.

I set up an event 1 minute in the future with an alert duration of 5 minutes,
but when the event was about to start, nothing happened. Orage only switched the
color of the entry from black to red, obviously to show that the event is over.

>>> There are
>>> no options currently in settings for visible windows. You
>>> can only define which program is used for sound type
>>> alarms. Using libnotify would add dependency on it and
>>> dbus would also be needed. It is a nice idea however.
>>>     
>> I’ll file a feature request.
>>   
> Thanks

Thanks to you. This would be a very nice feature.


Regards, Mathias

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