Re: notifications.el server mode?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:23:53 +0200 Michael Albinus <address@hidden> wrote: 

MA> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
>> Can Emacs use notifications.el as a server (recipient)?  Currently it
>> seems that it can only be a client (sender).  If not, how hard is that
>> to add?

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> But according to the D-Bus architecture, there can be only one service
MA> using a given service name at a time; the Emacs notification daemon
MA> would need to replace the desktop's default notification daemon, which
MA> might not be desirable

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

MA> (except you regard Emacs as *the* desktop, aren't you?)

Almost :)  I want it to provide the things I listed in
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/139687 plus notifications
as requested here.  But it shouldn't be the WM, IMO that won't work.

Ted