Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Introducing E17's Notification Module

The Enlightenment developers are busily hacking away as always. There are so many SVN commits to the E repository that it is easy to over look new features if you aren't looking for them. A nifty little module recently made its way into the core of Enlightenment though - its called "Notification". Notification is a native E alternative to other notification daemons such as notify osd.

If you have a recent Enlightenment build you will find Notification under the core E modules:


Simply loading the module is enough for it to start working. However as is the case with most of the E17 desktop, the Notification module is fairly configurable:


The notifications themselves are sleek, simple and stay out of your way:


The Notification module should work with all applications that work with other notification daemons such as notify osd.

~Jeff Hoogland

7 comments:

  1. How do you get into the notification settings? It'd be nice if configuration was in the same spot as loading the module, so it would be like "load" "unload" and "settings" all in "Module Settings"

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    1. In the menu:

      Settings->All->Extensions

      However the faster way is just to search for "notification" using run everything :)

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    2. You mean
      Settings>SettingsPanel>Extensions

      Having it on for a month or so and it works great.

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  2. Why "recently?" Notification module has been around for quite a long time - more than 2 years.

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    1. It recently got some updates though and was moved into the main part of E. I wasn't this nice (or ready for use) that long ago.

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  3. Very odd... in that screenshot you posted, the "X" button for the notification doesn't match the theme you are using... why would this happen if it was native Enlightenment?

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    1. The theme on my netbook is a mix of elements from 4 or 5 different themes.

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