Re: Desktop bubble notifications [Was: Re: Add function to make frame topmost?]

[David De La Harpe Golden]

Lennart Borgman wrote:

> What more could be done that way than would be possible if
> growlnotify.exe had a /wait switch?

Remembering that I'm not familiar with growl-for-windows, but in the api 
docs it looks like there's the possibility to just register callbacks 
directly (surely handier?), set custom attributes, and get fine-grained 
errors back.

I did say "especially on fd.o": libnotify has a lot of stuff not exposed 
through its notify-send, like multiple actions ( "Chat|Ignore"), 
possibility for association with specific applications widgets and 
systray icons, and support for updating the message of the 
notification*. (growl-for-windows doesn't currently do several of those 
in the first place as far as I can see (could well be wrong)).

[debian package python-notify has a bunch of examples in 
/usr/share/doc/python-notify/examples ]


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import pynotify
import time

pynotify.init("Countdown")
n = pynotify.Notification("Uh oh","...")
n.show()
for i in range(10,0,-1):
    time.sleep(1)
    n.update("Uh oh", "%s..." % i)
    n.show()
n.update("Oh No!", "<b>BANG</b>")
n.show()