The new version of Gossip (0.11.1) has a feature which I consider quite useful: when a contact becomes online, a notification message appears with a small button "Chat" and something like a clock which represents the timeout for disappearing the message.
It is very convenient when you wait for someone to become online in order to tell him/her something urgent (well, not so urgent that deserves a phone call or something). It also saves you the hassle of opening the roster or right-clicking the trayicon to choose the contact in question.
I don't know whether you'd be willing to implement it, or if at all possible. AFAIK Gossip uses libnotify for this. Please take a look at it.
Yavor Doganov wrote:
The new version of Gossip (0.11.1) has a feature which I consider quite useful: when a contact becomes online, a notification message appears with a small button "Chat" and something like a clock which represents the timeout for disappearing the message.
It is very convenient when you wait for someone to become online in order to tell him/her something urgent (well, not so urgent that deserves a phone call or something). It also saves you the hassle of opening the roster or right-clicking the trayicon to choose the contact in question.
I don't know whether you'd be willing to implement it, or if at all possible. AFAIK Gossip uses libnotify for this. Please take a look at it.
we already have that since some releases. just install dbus and libnotify and this will work in Gajim too:
Yann Le Boulanger wrote:
we already have that since some releases. just install dbus and libnotify and this will work in Gajim too:
I have libnotify/notification-daemon and I get notification pop-ups, but there are no buttons to press on the notification window (Debian testing, Gajim 0.10, dbus 0.61). I couldn't find such a feature in the advanced settings as well. dkirov mentioned that this work is in progress.
On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:49:56 +0300 Yavor Doganov yavor@doganov.org wrote:
Yann Le Boulanger wrote:
we already have that since some releases. just install dbus and libnotify and this will work in Gajim too:
I have libnotify/notification-daemon and I get notification pop-ups, but there are no buttons to press on the notification window (Debian testing, Gajim 0.10, dbus 0.61). I couldn't find such a feature in the advanced settings as well. dkirov mentioned that this work is in progress.
Click on notification in Gossip is interpreted as "Close notification". In Gajim it is interpreted as "Open chat window", which is more intuitive. Gajim doesn't need a button, which will do the same. Here: http://trac.gajim.org/ticket/1537 the issue was widely discussed.
There is no exact HIG for notifications and each application brings its own understanding. Maybe this is the main problem.
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Dimitur Kirov wrote:
There is no exact HIG for notifications and each application brings its own understanding. Maybe this is the main problem.
Yeah, this caused the confusion. Yann wrote me off-list that clicking on the notification window is what I have to do. I feel dumb now :/
Sorry for the noise.
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