xfce4-notifyd feature requests

[Jannis Pohlmann]

Am Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:37:04 -0800
schrieb "Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu>:

> Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> > Hey Brian,
> > 
> > since there is no bugzilla product for xfce4-notifyd yet, I'll post
> > a few of my feature requests for it here for now.
> > 
> >   1. Calculate workspace bounds (compute the area between panels
> > etc.) and position notifications so that there always is some space
> >      between them and the screen edge and things such as panels.
> 
> Yeah, positioning currently *sucks*.  A combination of _NET_WORKAREA
> and monitor geometry should fix that; right now it just has a
> hard-coded awful value.
> 
> It would also be awfully nice if multiple notifications didn't cover 
> each other, but that turns out to be much harder to do than I
> initially thought, so I left it out of the first release.  I have a
> local branch with some early code to do this, but it doesn't work yet.
> 
> >   2. Allow for center and maybe bottom center and top center
> >   positioning.
> 
> Not a bad idea.
> 
> >   3. Fade notifications in just as you fade them out. Wwooooo!
> 
> Eh, I thought about this (and implemented it at one point), but
> decided I didn't like it.

I think I would like it. Maybe make it a bit faster than fading out.
But I can imagine it could look quite nice.

  - Jannis
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