Notification Deamon - Notify OSD

[ray]

Hi,

Perhaps Salix could include the much prettier notify-osd instead of the old xfce notification deamon?
I've compiled it and it doesnt really have any extra deps, so why not use it?

https://launchpad.net/notify-osd

Thanks,
ray

[gapan]

Any screenshots of that?

And we're not using the xfce notification daemon, we're using notification-daemon.

[ray]

Here you go:

[gapan]

It looks good in that screenshot, but I just tried it and it looks really bad with transparency disabled.

[ray]

Hi,

I just checked it without composite on, and it doesnt have the transparencies/fades, but it still looks nicer than the default deamon IMO.

Also, perhaps, could you add it to the repository?

Thanks,
ray

[Duncan_Idaho]

one thing a really hate about that ubuntu notification thing is that you can' tclick the notifications to dismiss them, because when you pass them over with the mouse they become transparent, but when the mouse is away they become visible again

[gapan]

I also can't find a way to change its placement.

Anyway, if you want a package for it, your can create an SLKBUILD file with the following contents:

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#Packager: George Vlahavas <vlahavas~at~gmail~dot~com>

pkgname=notify-osd
pkgver=0.9.25
pkgrel=1gv
arch=i486
source=(http://launchpad.net/notify-osd/trunk/ubuntu-9.10-sru/+download/notify-osd-0.9.25.tar.gz)
docs=("readme" "install" "copying" "changelog" "authors" "news" "todo")
url=https://launchpad.net/notify-osd

slackdesc=\
(
#|-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
"notify-osd (daemon that displays passive pop-up notifications)"
"The Desktop Notifications framework provides a standard way of doing"
"passive pop-up notifications on the Linux desktop. These are designed"
"to notify the user of something without interrupting their work with a"
"dialog box that they must close. Passive popups can automatically"
"disappear after a short period of time."
)

#Packager: George Vlahavas <vlahavas~at~gmail~dot~com>

pkgname=notify-osd
pkgver=0.9.25
pkgrel=1gv
arch=i486
source=(http://launchpad.net/notify-osd/trunk/ubuntu-9.10-sru/+download/notify-osd-0.9.25.tar.gz)
docs=("readme" "install" "copying" "changelog" "authors" "news" "todo")
url=https://launchpad.net/notify-osd

slackdesc=\
(
#|-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
"notify-osd (daemon that displays passive pop-up notifications)"
"The Desktop Notifications framework provides a standard way of doing"
"passive pop-up notifications on the Linux desktop. These are designed"
"to notify the user of something without interrupting their work with a"
"dialog box that they must close. Passive popups can automatically"
"disappear after a short period of time."
)


build() {
	cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
	./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc --build=$arch-slackware-linux --disable-gtktest
	make || return 1
	make install DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg
} 

build() {
	cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
	./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc --build=$arch-slackware-linux --disable-gtktest
	make || return 1
	make install DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg
} 

change the arch line to "x86_64" if you want to compile for 64bits and then run slkbuild -X in the same directory you have that SLKBUILD file. Wait a bit until it compiles and you'll get a package in that same directory.