Fun use of new notification system

[hind3nburg]

Last weekend I started playing around with twitter & dbus and was able to make my tweets show up with the desktop notification system.

Today I upgraded to jaunty to check out the new notification style and was surprised that most everything continued to work as normal, except it looked much nicer. The only downside is that links in the notifications can't be clicked any more.

If you have rubygems installed you can do:
> gem install birdy

Or if you are just interested in the code you can check it out here:
http://github.com/darrenhinderer/birdy/tree/master

Maybe someone would be interested in rewriting it in python and packaging it? I would love to package it for Ubuntu in it's current form, but I have a feeling its more trouble than it's worth.

[ghindo]

I think gwibber already has the functionality of the hack you're describing, if I'm not mistaken.

[hind3nburg]

Wow. Thanks for the heads up. I am bummed that I didn't see this first, but I did have a good time working on it.

Maybe I'll investigate their code and continue to work on my client just to understand how they did facebook & rss integration.

[ghindo]

Wow. Thanks for the heads up. I am bummed that I didn't see this first, but I did have a good time working on it.

Maybe I'll investigate their code and continue to work on my client just to understand how they did facebook & rss integration.Yeah, no problem. It's a fairly new project (it only made it into the Ubuntu repos in Jaunty), so you shouldn't feel bad about missing it.

Good luck with your hack! :)