Re: [PLUG] KDE Pop-Up Notifications

[Ian Reinhart Geiser <geiseri@yahoo.com>]

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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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