FreeLists / haiku-development / [haiku-development] Re: Notification Server?

[Michael Phipps <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

1) This amount of debate and controversy is *exactly* why I was/am/will be 
in favor of keeping R1 as close to R5 as possible. I think that these 
conversations are good and valuable, don't get me wrong, but I think that 
there is always the potential to distract from completing R1. :-/
2) Having said that, what Chris said blends in nicely to the "design" 
(ideas, really) that I was talking about earlier: BNotification wraps 
BMessage and BMessanger to make a "Kit" (really this should go in the 
Interface Kit, at some point). Send() sends the message to some predefined 
mime type. By default, there is a Snarl-esque little popup view thing. 
Maybe an icon in the deskbar and allows you to turn them on or off or go to 
preferences.
Now, Niels, hating beyond all measure (teasing!) the little Snarl-esque 
app, takes it out of his startup folder and puts "SystemLogger" there in 
its place. SystemLogger is a little app that appends each message to a 
textfile and is able to scroll through that file, displaying some lines at 
a time using Haiku's mmap functionality (FTW!).
Everyone is happy. The API is simple, easy to write, straightforward and 
very Be-like. Developers are happy because they have notifications. Users 
are happy because they can manage their notifications and even how they 
view them. And the style police are happy because we use Little Apps That 
Do One Thing.

Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> On 5/24/07, Chris Peel <chris.gsi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> [snipping good stuff]
> > You'd construct a BNotificaton object, fill in the Setxxx() fields
> > then call Show() - this would send the notification information to
> > the daemon which would then decide whether it should be displayed or
> > not (and where on-screen, and in what colour/style, etc.)
> >
> > Just my rather long 2c...
> What you described is *exactly* what I was thinking. Do you want to
> help with this? I'm not even kidding, your experience with Snarl could
> be invaluable.
>
> Thinking I may still do this despite my earlier email to Niels,
> Ryan