On Wed, Nov 21 2012, Julien Cubizolles wrote:

> I recently discovered (and tried successfully)
> gnus-notifications. However the popups it uses are big (and ugly)
> standard gtk windows and not the nice OSD ones used by other
> notifications (volume/wifi/battery). I was under the impression that it
> would use the standard notification method, as gnus-desktop-notify
> (another gnus notification tool) does.

gnus-notifications relies on Freedesktop notifications API:

   http://developer.gnome.org/notification-spec/

I don't know about gnus-desktop-notify. It seems it uses the
`notify-send' program, which should do the same.

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Julien Danjou
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