Re: notifications.el server mode?

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:03:29 +0200 Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote: 

MA> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
MA> notifications.el uses the D-Bus specification of the
MA> org.freedesktop.Notifications service on the session bus. Of course,
MA> there could be an implementation of this service inside Emacs.
>> 
>> Great.  How hard is it to add?

MA> I could provide you the D-Bus frame functionality, that's easy. I have
MA> no idea how hard it is to implement the functionality with Emacs frames
MA> and icons; this I would let to you :-)

That would be great.  I'll handle the messages, sure.

MA> Note, that the daemon would be responsible to handle *all* notifications
MA> swimming around the session, not only the ones sent from Emacs
MA> itself.

No problem :)

>> So we'll need a way to find if a notification daemon is running, too?

MA> That's simple. D-Bus allows registration of services, kicking existing
MA> ones out. It's not a common use case, though :-)

I keep discovering uncommon needs as I work on the Emacs desktop
functionality...  Thanks for your help!

Ted