
Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements
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What is it?
Colibri provides an alternative to KDE4 Plasma notifications.
Colibri notifications look lighter and are completely passive: they do not provide any buttons. You may or may not like this.
Since they are completely passive, they smoothly fade away when you mouse over them, allowing you to interact with any window behind them.
They also do not stack each others: if multiple notifications happen, they will be shown one at a time.
Dependencies
You need kdelibs >= 4.4.
Setup
Colibri can be configured from its System Settings module.
If you need help follow the setup howto at http://gitorious.org/colibri/pages/SetupHowto.
A bit of history
Passive notifications for Plasma first appeared as "Ayatana notifications", an alternative notification system I implemented in Kubuntu Karmic as part of my work for Canonical.
Ayatana notifications were implemented as a patch against the systemtray applet. Colibri is based on this work, but does not require patching any applet.
Colibri contains code I wrote for Canonical, but it is not a Canonical product.
7 years ago
2013.05.14 - 0.3.0
Fixes
- Bring back drop shadows in KDE SC 4.10
- Use KMessageWidget in KCM
- Remove blank lines between concatenated notifications
- Moved to kde.org git repository
2011.09.25 - 0.2.2
Fixes
- Plug three small mem leaks. Should also fix a rare crasher. (Aurélien Gí¢teau)
Translations
- Brasilian Portuguese (Caio Romí£o)
- Slovakian (Slavko)
- Italian (Federico Chiacchiaretta)
- Czech (Pavel Fric)
- Spanish (gejo)
2010.08.06 - 0.2.1
Fixes
- Disable KWin shadows.
- Quit if we can't register as the notification handler.
2010.08.05 - 0.2.0
New features
- When a second notification arrives from the same application, using the same title, append it to the existing notification.
- Notifications use blurred background on KDE 4.5.
- Notifications use a background halo behind text, similar to what Plasma tooltips do since KDE 4.4, as well as the Plasma theme foreground color.
- Implemented support for the replacesId parameter.
- It is now possible to specify the screen where the notifications will appear.
- A "Preview" button has been added to the KCM.
- It is now possible to start Colibri from within the KCM.
- Turkish translation by Ozan í‡aÄŸlayan.
- German translation by Michael Gangolf.
- Serbian translation for desktop file by Mladen Pejaković.
Fixes
- KCM is now translatable.
- The KCM has moved (again!) to the notification group.
- Use an autostart file to start Colibri instead of relying on the DBus service
system. This solves file conflict problems with other notification systems and
ensures Colibri is started when the first KDE notification is sent.
- Fixed linking with gold.
2010.02.16 - 0.1.1
- Moved the KCM to the Desktop category.
- Emit the NotificationClosed() signal when a notification is closed. This fixes double notifications from Banshee.
- Implement the CloseNotification() method.
2009.12.15 - 0.1.0
- First release.
7 years ago
2013.05.14 - 0.3.0
Fixes
- Bring back drop shadows in KDE SC 4.10
- Use KMessageWidget in KCM
- Remove blank lines between concatenated notifications
- Moved to kde.org git repository
2011.09.25 - 0.2.2
Fixes
- Plug three small mem leaks. Should also fix a rare crasher. (Aurélien Gí¢teau)
Translations
- Brasilian Portuguese (Caio Romí£o)
- Slovakian (Slavko)
- Italian (Federico Chiacchiaretta)
- Czech (Pavel Fric)
- Spanish (gejo)
2010.08.06 - 0.2.1
Fixes
- Disable KWin shadows.
- Quit if we can't register as the notification handler.
2010.08.05 - 0.2.0
New features
- When a second notification arrives from the same application, using the same title, append it to the existing notification.
- Notifications use blurred background on KDE 4.5.
- Notifications use a background halo behind text, similar to what Plasma tooltips do since KDE 4.4, as well as the Plasma theme foreground color.
- Implemented support for the replacesId parameter.
- It is now possible to specify the screen where the notifications will appear.
- A "Preview" button has been added to the KCM.
- It is now possible to start Colibri from within the KCM.
- Turkish translation by Ozan í‡aÄŸlayan.
- German translation by Michael Gangolf.
- Serbian translation for desktop file by Mladen Pejaković.
Fixes
- KCM is now translatable.
- The KCM has moved (again!) to the notification group.
- Use an autostart file to start Colibri instead of relying on the DBus service
system. This solves file conflict problems with other notification systems and
ensures Colibri is started when the first KDE notification is sent.
- Fixed linking with gold.
2010.02.16 - 0.1.1
- Moved the KCM to the Desktop category.
- Emit the NotificationClosed() signal when a notification is closed. This fixes double notifications from Banshee.
- Implement the CloseNotification() method.
2009.12.15 - 0.1.0
- First release.
shapirus
5 years ago
any idea how to make colibri work with Plasma 5.3.0?
ii kde-notification-colibri 0.3.0-2ubuntu1 amd64 passive notification system for kde4
this is Kubuntu 15.04 with the latest Plasma upgrades installed from http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu
There isn't even an option to choose between colibri or native notifications in system settings anymore.
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CxOrg
5 years ago
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Sitri
5 years ago
http://i.imgur.com/kROWSWX.png <- bad text
http://i.imgur.com/CD0ZUdN.png <- what it should look like
Any ideas as to if this is something on my end or a bug in the colibri code? If it is any idea where it might be? I'm using the latest code from the anongit kde repo.
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Skywalker8921
6 years ago
Just a question though: on my system it looks like this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27582148/capture_colibri.png
A tiny popup, and half-hidden behind the panel. I understand that the size and position cannot be changed for the moment, but do you have any idea what I could do to get the expected position?
(The window being opaque is not a problem, I use a computer without graphical effects. I hope it is not the root cause of the issue though)
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arcanis
6 years ago
Thank you for your work!
But some applications, such as Qutim, have text-like notification, for example, newline symbol is "\n" (not <br> as it is needed for html code). It would be nice if you will add a replacement of the symbol to the correct one. And I've created a patch that does it. (I know there are a lot of ways to do it.) Link to the patch is:
https://github.com/arcan1s/pkgbuild/blob/master/colibri-line/fix-line.patch
And I would be happy if you will add support for jobs too, such as copying files :)
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bk12
6 years ago
Regarding file operations: to me notifications and file progress information are different concepts, it just happens that Plasma by default group them.
One needs to be able to interact with the file progress view, so it does not make sense to me to add this to Colibri. I personally uses Colibri together with the Plasma file progress view. It works well.
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arcanis
6 years ago
Yep, I agree that file operation and notification is different in their concept. I meant that only notification about start and end of jobs will be a good addition for your applet IMHO.
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bk12
6 years ago
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arcanis
6 years ago
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6 years ago
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DivanSantana
7 years ago
Any chace to configure how far from the edge of the screen the popup is? I've configured for top right corner(default) and it's basically touching the edge of the screen and top plasma panel which doesn't look that great.
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bk12
7 years ago
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sylvainsjc
7 years ago
Does you have an idea to take this in account ?
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bk12
7 years ago
- Remove Plasma notification applet from the systemtray. This way you get classic file transfer dialogs.
- Keep Plasma notification applet in the systemtray, but uncheck the "Application Notification" box. This way you get Plasma file transfer indications and Colibri notifications.
For more info, see:
http://agateau.com/projects/colibri/setup/
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frag
7 years ago
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bk12
7 years ago
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frag
7 years ago
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Thaodan
8 years ago
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bk12
8 years ago
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itsjustarumour2
8 years ago
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marcs
9 years ago
What I would love to see is colibri als working for other notifications, like device manager and the likes. Thanks again!
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acidrums4
9 years ago
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9 years ago
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bk12
9 years ago
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se3n
9 years ago
Thanks anyway :) :P
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