Advertising notifications (Was: Re: Port Growl!)

[Stefan Urbanek]

Hi,

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 13:02 -0400, Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
> http://growl.info/
> 
> I think it is an interesting application for users.
> Every application can send messages through distributed notification center
> and it will display a graphic message temporarily on screen.
> It is very useful for mail client, instant messenger, etc.
> 

Nice application. However, you have raised a topic that I have in mind
for some time. What do you, and other developers, think about
advertising all relevant distributed notifications posted by an
application in some standard way so other
logging/notifying/scripting/cooperating apps can take actions on those
notifications?

Something simple in *Info.plist like:

GSNotifications = {
        GNUMailReceivedMailNotification =
        {
                DisplayName = "Received Mail";
        }
}

With well known "interface" for advertising notifications one can easily
create handlers/trggers to perform desired actions on known system state
changes or events.

What do you think?

Stefan Urbanek
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