Re: xchat notify utility (flashapplet)

[Jon-Pierre Gentil <jgentil@charter.net>]

On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 20:54, Bret McMillan wrote:
> Yup.  I played with this a little while back, haven't had time to mess 
> with it much, but I took a look at what the rhn-applet package did in RHL 
> 8.0 ... the rhn package mainly used python, but just extrapolated from 
> that to use the c functions.  It was pretty trivial to get the image to 
> show up when the nick highlight callback gets run.  Didn't get any farther 
> then the leaky 20 minute hack to do that :)
>
> Some thoughts:
> o  notification per channel, or one global
> o  a timer on the lifetime of the icon in the system tray?
> o  switching workspaces to go directly to xchat when clicking on the 
> notification
What I thought, was to always leave an icon in the tray, but change it on message.

I'd also say, a single icon.  I leave a limited amount of space for system tray stuff.  I join lots of channels.  Smashing my taskbar to add channels would be bad.  :-)  I wonder if it would be able to tell if the user didn't click, but did acknowledge the highlight by clicking on the highlighted tab.

I would also say it should definitely switch workspaces when clicked, so that it doesn't pull up on a workspace it shouldn't.

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Jon-Pierre Gentil <jgentil@charter.net>