Sun 18 Sep 2005
I’m getting pretty far with the notification widget and server that I think at least the library is ready to be committed upstream. I took Colin’s EggNotificationBubble and converted it into a widget that inherits from GtkWindow. Along the way I added a bevel to the borders and made the arrow flush with the corner. The change in arrow position does a couple of things. First it reduces the number of rectangles needed to construct the shaped window and second it makes dealing with screen edges a lot easier. Plus, I think it looks better.
I have been using NetworkManager as my test app but will soon move to Krb5 Auth Dialog to finish up the whole user actions workflow. On Monday I need to edit the specifications, submit that and the library to the libnotify guys, and check with Mark if he thinks it is a good idea to put the notification server into the notification area applet. After all of that it comes down to integrating/porting apps and submitting the whole notification shebang for consideration of inclusion in Gnome 2.14.
Brian Clark
We always knew he was a ricer but this just confirms it 
September 20th, 2005 at 12:47 am
“associated” is a bit of an awkward word for that notification, particularly followed by “to” since it’s almost always followed by “with.”
September 20th, 2005 at 7:16 pm
Ya the verbage has to change. I was just using NetworkManager as a testbed and will hand it off to designers to write up the common man lingo :-).