hildon-banner without full GTK app?
 

Hi, how can I make one of the nice yellow hildon notification banners pop up, without needing a full GTK app - I mean like the low-battery notification isn't coming from a GTK app so I'm assuming there's a way to do it, even though the reference:

static Banner* Hildon::Banner::show_information ( Gtk::Widget & widget,
const Glib::ustring & text
)
says otherwise.

DBUS? PyMaemo? Anyone?

Re: hildon-banner without full GTK app?
 

if you'd like to use QT, then there is QMaemo5InformationBox

Re: hildon-banner without full GTK app?
 

What about from the console? How does the system generate this? I'm thinking of creating a very simple Growl GNTP listener that passes the messages received to hildon-banner. I don't need a GUI app at all for this, just a console app and hildon-banner!

Re: hildon-banner without full GTK app?
 

its all
HERE

Re: hildon-banner without full GTK app?
 

No, no it's not.
dbus-send-notification doesn't exist on my N900.

The longer DBUS command creates a *modal* notification in the middle of the screen, which is not what I want

Interestingly, the python script in http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...53&postcount=1 creates a notification which looks similar to the new SMS popup. Still not the 'top bar' notification.

Re: hildon-banner without full GTK app?
 

Actually, it is. The status bar applet that displays that notification may not be a standalone app, but it is still linked against the GTK+ and Hildon libraries and uses hildon_banner_show_information () to show that low battery notification.

But, to answer your question: run-standalone.sh dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.freedesktop.Notifications /org/freedesktop/Notifications org.freedesktop.Notifications.SystemNoteInfoprint string:"Message goes here."

Re: hildon-banner without full GTK app?
 

Thanks. I just generated this:

Nokia-N900-42-11:/home/user/MyDocs/src# python mdbus.py -s org.freedesktop.Notifications /org/freedesktop/Notifications
[METHOD] org.freedesktop.Notifications.CloseNotification( u:id )
[METHOD] org.freedesktop.Notifications.GetCapabilities()
[METHOD] org.freedesktop.Notifications.GetServerInformation ()
[METHOD] org.freedesktop.Notifications.Notify( s:app_name, u:id, s:icon, s:summary, s:body, as:actions, a{sv}:hints, i:timeout )
[METHOD] org.freedesktop.Notifications.SystemNoteDialog( s:message, u:type, s:label )
[METHOD] org.freedesktop.Notifications.SystemNoteInfoprint( s:message )
[METHOD] org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable.Introspect()
[METHOD] org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get( s:interface, s:propname )
[METHOD] org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.GetAll( s:interface )
[METHOD] org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set( s:interface, s:propname, v:value )

Re: hildon-banner without full GTK app?
 

How did you find this method originally, I needed to use the amazing mdbus introspection to find it - was it documented somewhere that I didn't look?

Re: hildon-banner without full GTK app?
 

http://github.com/voltagex/projects/...tifications.py for anyone who's interested, work in progress.