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About KNotify
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Historic overview. From KDE-1 to KDE-2:
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KDE-1 ships with a notification system for window manager events - a sound
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could be played for example on startup or when a window closes. This was a
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very limited notification system.
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KNotify in contrast is a very flexible notification system. It can easily be
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accessed by any application, and notifications can have several
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presentations: Sound is still supported, but you can as well display a
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message box, write a text to a log file or log window.
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The notification presentation will be user configurable. Some people don't
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like message boxes popping up at unexpected times, so they prefer sounds
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instead. Deaf people on the otehr hand will not be happy about desktop
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sounds.
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Usage:
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1. Compile
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2. Start knotify
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3. Test it with knotifyclient.
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Ideas:
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It might be useful to modify message presentation from time to time. For
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example, while the screen is locked, it is very likely that the user is not
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present. Thus, he will not be able to hear a "You have mail" sound (or to
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see a talk request). Re-routing this to a log window sounds like a very good
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idea.
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Notes:
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KNotify can be accessed directly using one of the available methods.
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- void notify(TQString event, TQString fromApp, TQString text, TQString sound,
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TQString file, int present, int level)
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- void notify(TQString event, TQString fromApp, TQString text, TQString sound,
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TQString file, int present, int level, int winId)
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- void notify(TQString event, TQString fromApp, TQString text, TQString sound,
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TQString file, int present, int level, int winId, int eventId)
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For example:
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dcop knotify Notify notify event "Msg from MyApp" "Hello World!" "" "" 16 0
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