[maemo-developers] Notifications and Fremantle: How should they be done?

[From: Faheem Pervez]

Hi,

Ah, OK. Using a HildonBanner is fine with me; I just assumed that we
would be able to use libnotify in the same way. Thanks! :)

Best Regards,
Faheem

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:07 AM, daniel wilms <daniel.wilms at nokia.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> right now the described notification is not meant to be used by 3rd party
> developers. Please try to follow the instructions of the HIG [1] on how to
> display information to the user. I don't know what you want to achieve, but
> I guess a banner could be the right way to do it.
>
> [1]
> http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Developer_Guide/Human_Interface_Guidelines/Notes_and_Banners
>
> Cheers Daniel
>
> ext Faheem Pervez wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In Diablo, getting a notification to popup in the bottom-left corner
>> (e.g. Modest's new mail notifcations) could be simply done using the
>> libnotify API as-is. However, in Fremantle, this does not appear to be
>> the case any more (from what I can tell, anyway) and I was wondering
>> if anyone had any hints on how to show notifications like the one seen
>> at 1:15 on the video found on http://maemo.nokia.com/ ("New SMS
>> message received").
>> I've also tried using libhildonnotification, too, but as it is (in
>> essence) a wrapper for libnotify, it doesn't help me much and yields
>> the same result as me using libnotify directly.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Faheem
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