Re: [PLUG] KDE Pop-Up Notifications

["W. Chris Shank" <chris.shank@acetechgroup.com>]

Sweet! The first method works great for me. The second is good to know -
but is more than I need at this point. But it's great to have it written
down for future use.

Thanks!

BTW: Ian - I found the manual and some stuff for the clio - do you want
it?


On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 18:23, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
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> On Saturday 19 July 2003 11:54 am, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'd like to write a small script that launched a KDE pop-up notification
> > for received faxes. I figure I can monitor the incoming directory or
> > maybe get efax to launch it as part of the fax receiving process.
> > However, what I don't know is how to do this in KDE. How would I do this
> > from the CLI? Anyone have a clue? I didn't have much luck googling - but
> > maybe I searched on the wrong text.
> 
> Well you have two attacks you can take.  First is KDialog.  This is a dialog 
> replacement for KDE.  This is a cool approach because with some simple magic 
> you can make the same shell script work in Gnome (using gdialog) terminla 
> using dialog and KDE using KDialog.
> 
> The other approach while faster is limited only to KDE.  This uses dcop (kdcop 
> is a nice browser to explore these interfaces).  A good example script would 
> be as follows:
> id=1 
> type=1 # these are the enumed types documented in KMessageBox and QMessageBox
> test="A new fax has arrived"
> caption="New Fax"
> buttonYes="Ok"
> buttonNo="Cancel"
> dcop kio_uiserver UIServer messageBox id type text caption buttonYes buttonNo
> 
> This will pop up a dialog and return the ID of the button pressed.   This is 
> imperfect but has been refined in KDE 3.2 with dcopwidgets.  The above 
> options will give you what you need for now, but for more information on 
> dcopwidgets you can check out http://geiseri.myip.org/~geiseri/dcopwidgets
> for whats to come.
> 
> Cheers
> 	-ian reinhart geiser
> 
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