From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
To: Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gnus-notifications popup style
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:19:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vccz9bdm.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9ubm1pp.fsf@dex.adm.naquadah.org> (Julien Danjou's message of "Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:10:10 +0100")
Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info> writes:
>> 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.
FWIW, I get the nice GNOME3 notifications. I think, I used to start it
as --daemon from some GNOME autostart file, and then the notifications
were just plain grey GTK boxes. When I start emacs "normally" from the
dock or a gnome terminal, it works just fine.
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-21 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-21 13:41 Julien Cubizolles
2012-11-21 15:10 ` Julien Danjou
2012-11-21 16:19 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2012-11-21 17:24 ` Julien Cubizolles
2012-11-21 19:01 ` David Engster
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