====== notification-daemon-xfce ======

===== About =====
Notification-daemon-xfce is a port of Gnome's notification-daemon
for the Xfce desktop.

==== Credits ====
Original notification-daemon is written by Christian Hammond  and John Palmieri.

===== Installation =====
==== Dependencies ====
  * gtk >= 2.6.0
  * libxfce4util >= 4.3.90
  * libxfcegui4 >= 4.3.90
  * dbus >= 0.36
  * [[http://www.chipx86.com/wiki/Libsexy#Download|libsexy]] >= 0.1.3


==== Conflicts ====
Notification-daemon-xfce conflicts with the original notification-daemon


==== Compile ====
The simplest way to compile this package is:
  * ./configure --prefix=<path>
  * make && make install

You can optionally disable/enable the following settings:
  * --disable-close-button: Disable the close button the the notification. Note that clicking the notification will close it too.
  * --enable-gradient-look: Show a gradient look in the default theme.

===== Usage =====
Notification-daemon-xfce is a dbus daemon, so to use it, you need a frontend application to trigger the daemon. This application is [[http://www.galago-project.org/files/releases/source/libnotify/|libnotify]]. Libnotify provides bindings for applications and also a small application to manually send messages to the daemon: **notify-send**. Libnotify is probably provided by your distribution.


==== Using notify-send ====
After you've compiled notification-daemon-xfce and installated libnotify you can test the daemon by running:

''notify-send "Test notification"''

If everything went fine, a notification pops up on the right bottom of you screen; congratulations! You can create more complex notifications like so:

''notify-send -i appointment -u critical "Reminder" "You've got an appointment in 10 minutes."''

The result should be something like the screenshot below.

For more information about using notify-send, type ''notify-send --help''




===== Screenshots =====
{{:projects:applications:notification.png|Sample Notification}}
{{:projects:applications:notification_02.png|Sample Notification}}

{{:projects:applications:notification-mcs.png|Xfce MCS manager plugin}}



===== Releases =====
[[http://goodies.xfce.org/releases/notification-daemon-xfce/notification-daemon-xfce-0.3.7.tar.bz2|notification-daemon-xfce-0.3.7]]

[[http://goodies.xfce.org/releases/notification-daemon-xfce/notification-daemon-xfce-0.3.6.tar.bz2|notification-daemon-xfce-0.3.6]]

[[http://goodies.xfce.org/releases/notification-daemon-xfce/notification-daemon-xfce-0.3.5.tar.bz2|notification-daemon-xfce-0.3.5]]

===== ChangeLog =====
[[http://goodies.xfce.org/releases/notification-daemon-xfce/ChangeLog|ChangeLog]]

===== Links =====
[[http://www.galago-project.org/|Galago Website]]

[[http://gaim-libnotify.sourceforge.net/|Gaim Libnotify]]

[[http://ruby-libnotify.rubyforge.org/index.html|Ruby bindings for libnotify]]
[[http://www.galago-project.org/files/releases/source/notify-python/|Python bindings for libnotify]]