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Re: notifications.el server mode?
From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
Re: notifications.el server mode? |
Date: |
Sat, 11 Jun 2011 06:37:29 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:03:29 +0200 Michael Albinus <address@hidden> wrote:
MA> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
MA> notifications.el uses the D-Bus specification of the
MA> org.freedesktop.Notifications service on the session bus. Of course,
MA> there could be an implementation of this service inside Emacs.
>>
>> Great. How hard is it to add?
MA> I could provide you the D-Bus frame functionality, that's easy. I have
MA> no idea how hard it is to implement the functionality with Emacs frames
MA> and icons; this I would let to you :-)
That would be great. I'll handle the messages, sure.
MA> Note, that the daemon would be responsible to handle *all* notifications
MA> swimming around the session, not only the ones sent from Emacs
MA> itself.
No problem :)
>> So we'll need a way to find if a notification daemon is running, too?
MA> That's simple. D-Bus allows registration of services, kicking existing
MA> ones out. It's not a common use case, though :-)
I keep discovering uncommon needs as I work on the Emacs desktop
functionality... Thanks for your help!
Ted