Request: Notification area/Menu bar support about ui

[cryptix]

If that's all UI that you need, you might want to take a look at trayhost.

[andlabs]

For tray icons you can use the trayhost, yes. I'm not sure how portable UI for the tray/notification area would be done.

I wanted to add notification balloons, however that would require me bumping the minimum version requirements for Mac OS X to 10.8 and to add a libnotify dependency on the GTK+ systems. Not sure if I want to do that yet.

[tajtiattila]

Trayhost looks good, thank you both for the suggestion, I think I'll go with that.

As for notifications on Mac OSX before 10.8, there is Growl. Many apps I had supported it since 10.5.

[andlabs]

libnotify being separate makes me wonder if it would be better to make notification balloons a separate library as well. Figuring out how to support Growl would make more sense (since a separate package can still support 10.6).

Reopening; if this was google code I'd mark this as Thinking.

[matrixik]

You can add Labels to Github issues

[andlabs]

Ah, I see that now, thanks.

[andlabs]

Leaning toward making a separate package for notification balloons, especially if Growl support is on the table. How easy would it be to have a project selectively use Growl on 10.6/10.7 and the Cocoa notifications on 10.8+?