Very sad news this morning; An outrageous attack on Madrid. Speechless.
This is a quick hack that I put together in December 2002, a small notifier that looks like the Windows XP notifier with a nice little scrolling thingie. Someone asked me today about this hack, so am uploading it here.
The notifier embeds HTML with a few small tags that get displayed.
The nice trick back then was that you can send notifications to it by changing a Gconf key. You can then send notifications using the gconf api from your favorite language or from the command line language.
To use it today, do:
$ gnome-notifier &
Then to do notifications, you call a command line tool:
It supports a cute little prefix "run:", which does the obvious:
notify is just a shell script that calls gconftool.
Ideally this would be incorporated in some form into the panel, and with a history mechanism, you could use that to replace things like Gaim's annoying notifications.
So someone has implemented a XAML-like stack for Windows.Forms. Just to be clear on the danger of XAML for the Linux desktop: it is not about the markup language being a problem: its about the fact that XAML developers would create XAML applications that are bound to the Avalon toolkit.
So it comes down to: No Avalon, no app.
Posted on 11 Mar 2004