Re: ireminder

[Ahmed El-Mahmoudy <aelmahmoudy at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 01:05:47PM +0200, Ahmed El-Mahmoudy wrote:
> I used to use Tk in the GUI at first, but then I used notify-send as it 
> looked better.
as-salamu alaykom,

  To elaborate more on this comment, there is another con for Tk 
  compared to notify-send, is that when the notification message is send 
  using Tk, it takes the focus of the mouse (depending on window manager 
  setting maybe?) which I found annoying, that was another reason for me 
  to switch to notify-send. I think many distros use the libnotify now, 
  right ?

  When I was switching to notify-send instead of Tk, I was hoping to be 
  able to do something like namazTime (it was posted here few months 
  ago), namazTime looks very nice, but the problem is that it is in C, 
  and it seems to use libitl directly instead of being a front-end for 
  ipraytime, so I found that I will need two configuration files: one 
  for ipraytime (as I use ireminder for linux console) and one for 
  namazTime.

  If notify-send is to be used, the following field would be added to 
  the Debian package control file:
  Suggests: libnotify-bin

  The reason that it is Suggests: not Depends: is because in the script 
  I made, I check for existance of notify-send before using it.