
SmartNotify (unobtrusive notifications)
Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net
Unobtrusive notifications and job views for your plasma desktop. No more annoying popups.
Actually, this is not only one but two plasmoids: the SmartNotifications plasmoid displays text notifications while the SmartJobViews plasmoid displays progressbars and information for running jobs.
Features (notifications):
- Text scrolling for long notification messages
- Adjustable scroll speed and font size
- Open history popup on click
- Adjustable width in panel
Features (job views):
- Only progressbars are visible
- Details can be opened on click
- Suspend/stop command relaying
- Adjustable width in panel
(It is even possible to use only one of the plasmoids and let KDE handle the other part)
Please note: both widgets should be placed in a horizontal panel. On the desktop they won't be too useful.
These applets are still in alpha stage and susceptible to crashes.
Please help me to improve them by submitting bugs and feature requests.
Submit bugs and feature requests on GitHub:
https://github.com/mbleichner/smartnotify
Also, you are welcome to contribute to development, feel free to create a fork on GitHub!
Rudd-O
9 years ago
it only says no active jobs.
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mbleichner
9 years ago
It should be fixed now, try reinstalling the current version from GitHub.
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Sweyn78
8 years ago
I do indeed have the default notifications turned off, so this is probably a problem in these widgets.
I really like the premise of it, btw. I've always been annoyed by many of KDE's default notifications. :)
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GoFa
10 years ago
It's wonderful, but it doesn't work with Pidgin. :(
I think I need to install the KDE notifications plugin, but it would be great if it worked out of the box.
(Sorry about my english :P)
Thanks for making this plasmoid. :)
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mbleichner
10 years ago
I'm glad I have made something useful :)
Currently I don't have time to further develop this project because of my diploma thesis, but when I'm finished, I will continue my work on it. Your suggestion that the last notification stays on screen is very good, I will keep that in mind.
About pidgin: the reason it doesnt work is probably that pidgin doesnt send its notifications to dbus, but instead handles them on its own.
I for myself have stopped using pidgin in favor of kopete for its better integration into KDE.
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GoFa
10 years ago
It would be better if we could see always the last notifications on the screen, and set the ammount we want to stay static so we could put it in a vertical panel. :)
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EagleOrion
10 years ago
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mbleichner
10 years ago
How about the part with the job progress bars? This should be similar in design - only one icon too - but it should contain some kind of indicator so you can see immediately how far the job(s) have progressed.
I have to say I like the idea with the single icons, it's very minimalistic and often an icon is enough to guess what the message says (for exampe the KMail icon indicates new messages). But as this approach differs quite a lot from my current one, I will have to delay any work on it until I have more time.
If anyone is interested in helping me out, I would welcome that :)
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mbleichner
10 years ago
which would be the most wanted features for the next version?
Also, if anyone of you is eager to help me further develop both plasmoids I could register a sourceforge account for it.
Anyone interested?
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Sparrowmelody
10 years ago
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madegirah
10 years ago
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mbleichner
10 years ago
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madegirah
10 years ago
This happens when I try to install .deb-package. I tried "aptitude search kdecore" command, but it didn't help.
Please tell me how to splve this problem
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mbleichner
10 years ago
Unfortunately I have no experience at all with making deb packages, this was my first one, so I can't tell exactly what's going wrong here.
Check your libkdecore5 version and if there is nothing wrong, try installing SmartNotify from source, it's not that hard - just execute the commands as written in the INSTALL file.
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sxe
10 years ago
btw, here is a PKGBUILD for the archlinux guys. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41587
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mbleichner
10 years ago
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