Plans of Xfce4-notifyd on persistence?

[Panu Matilainen]

On 03/19/2011 03:26 PM, Jérôme Guelfucci wrote:
> On 19/03/11 14:14, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> On 03/19/2011 02:43 PM, Jérôme Guelfucci wrote:
>>> On 16/03/11 23:40, Matias De lellis wrote:
>>>> The title says all. ;)
>>>>
>>>> I'm testing fedora 15 alpha, and I have some problems. but the only
>>>> thing that
>>>> worries me are the updates notifications.
>>>> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/xfce/2011-March/000458.html
>>>>
>>>> Basically would have to implement something like this. We must create
>>>> a status
>>>> icon for each notification with persistence.
>>>> http://git.gnome.org/browse/notification-daemon/tree/src/nd-queue.c
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> Matias.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hello Matias,
>>>
>>> I don't have any particular plans regarding this. If you feel like
>>> working on it, I would be glad to provide some guidance and review your
>>> work.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just FYI, I'm having a look at this right now (hence the bogus bug about
>> missing files in git repo, sorry about the newbie mistake :)
>>
>> What Gnome's notification-daemon does is create exactly one
>> GtkStatusIcon (I think it's called "message tray" or such in the gnome
>> world) which is used to access and clear all the "pending" persistent
>> notifications. Shouldn't be particularly hard to add similar behavior to
>> xfce4-notifyd.
>>
>> - Panu -
>
> Hello Panu!
>
> I'm happy to see someone willing to work on this! Could you please open
> an enhancement request where we can move the technical and UI discussions?

Sure, will do. I poked around this a fair amount to get an idea how the 
persistence & related stuff is supposed to work in gnome etc, forming a 
few opinions and ideas along the way (I have to say I'm not entirely 
convinced about some things). I'll try to write it up the findings into 
an RFE tomorrow.

	- Panu -