On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Steve Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: >> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:08 AM, P Purkayastha <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: >>>> Hey all, >>>> >>>> notification module is useful, I like it and will move to >>>> e/src/modules (that is: officially supported), but first I need to >>>> revamp it so I need input from other users of it. >>>> >>>> for those that do not use it: notification will receive dbus messages >>>> and show them as popups. these messages can be sent by any >>>> application, but usually is done by gnome/gtk applications using >>>> libnotify, however some qt applications are using it and the new >>>> ubuntu uses a subset of that spec to show their fancy popups. Current >>>> e/module implementation will also present a fancy (semi transparent) >>>> window if composite manager is in use. >>>> >>>> if you use it: do you use the box/gadget feature? This is about half >>>> of the code, I never used it or found a use for it, when I tried it it >>>> seems broken. So I rather drop this instead of trying to fix. What do >>>> you think? Anyone strongly against it? If not I'll drop this feature, >>>> fix some bugs with popup positioning and move it to e/src/modules. >>>> >>>> >>> Hi, >>> I am a regular (daily) user of notification module. I use it on the shelf. >>> There is one thing which has always bothered me,- that is the fact that the >>> notification module does not seem to respect the urgency level. I have just >>> now tried the following with a clean and new config with only notification >>> module enabled in addition to the default enabled modules. >> >> [...] >> >> I noticed that too and plan to fix it and maybe change title color or >> mark popups with their level somehow (ideas btw?). Anyway, you >> described good test cases that I'll consider while doing the work. >> >> >>> With all the negative comments above, I must say one positive comment: the >>> rest of the module works absolutely fine. I have configured it heavily in my >>> original .e config, tweaking *all* the checkboxes/sliders I could find. :D >>> >>> Since you are trying to clean up the module, I thought it would be a good >>> time to bring up this bug :D >> >> sure. I'll rework this and some ui bits of popup at least. >> >> since you're the sole user of "box" feature, do you really want to >> keep it or may I drop that, at least for now? Then someone else can >> try to work on it (if done properly, it's like viktor's drawer, but >> with different content). >> > > While we're on the subject of the Notification module, there's another > couple of things I'd like to throw into the mix: > > First, the Placement options for the popups refer to the top left > co-ordinates of the popup. However, if I place the popups towards the > bottom/right of the screen, specifying the offset from the left/top > isn't that useful - depending on the size of the popup, it will either > be floating mid-screen if it's small, or disappear off the edge if it's > large. Being able to specify which margins you're dealing with for the > placement will be useful.
i'm annoyed by these things as well. > Second, I've noticed that popups from Rhythmbox don't appear in the > correct place according to the Placement settings. On my dual-screen > layout they appear in the wrong place and overlap off the edge of the > screen, while on my single screen layout they don't appear at all (I'm > guessing that they're off the screen somewhere, but I've got no way to > tell). Is it a feature of libnotify programs that they can override the > position of a popup, or is this a bug in the notification module? the protocol enables you to hint position, but we could ignore as it's just a hint. but might be the case that these notifications with hints are being misplaced by our module as well. -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri http://profusion.mobi embedded systems -------------------------------------- MSN: [email protected] Skype: gsbarbieri Mobile: +55 (19) 9225-2202 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
