I changed kdialog so that a standard call of

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kdialog --passive-popup  --title 

(title and timeout are optional) makes use of those VisualNotifications if they are available. The release team allowed me to backport it to 4.2 too, so there you go.

jpetso wrote:I changed kdialog so that a standard call of

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kdialog --passive-popup  --title 

(title and timeout are optional) makes use of those VisualNotifications if they are available. The release team allowed me to backport it to 4.2 too, so there you go.

That is very neat. Not as good as being able to do what I and the OP wanted to, but still a welcome feature. Good work!

any notify-send in the works? kdialog doesn't set icon

I needed such a script. Wasn't that difficult to write it in python. Its not complete but I think its not very hard to modify it for your own needs:

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#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Default Configuration (will be overridden by cmd line arguments)
APPLICATION   = ''      # name of the calling application (will be shown if now summery is available)
SUMMERY      = ''
BODY      = ''
ICON      = 'kmail'
TIMEOUT      = 2000      # 0 means, never hide the message; value greater than 0 is the time in ms the message is shown

import sys
import getopt
import dbus

def main():
   dbus = DBus()
   args = CmdLine(sys.argv[1:])
   dbus.notify(app_name=args.getApplication(), app_icon=ICON, summery=args.getSummery(), body=args.getBody(), timeout=TIMEOUT)

class CmdLine():
   # TODO: support for more options

   def __init__(self, argv):
      try:
         opts, args = getopt.getopt(argv, 'hs:', ['help', 'summery=', 'app='])
      except getopt.GetoptError:
         usage()
         sys.exit(2)

      for opt, arg in opts:
         if opt in ('-h', '--help'):
            usage()
            sys.exit()
         elif opt in ('-s', '--summery'):
            self.__summery = arg
         elif opt == '--app':
            self.__app = arg

      if len(args) > 0:
         self.__body = ' '.join(args)

   def getApplication(self):
      try:
         return self.__app
      except AttributeError:
         return APPLICATION

   def getSummery(self):
      try:
         return self.__summery
      except AttributeError:
         return SUMMERY

   def getBody(self):
      try:
         return self.__body
      except AttributeError:
         return BODY

def usage():
   """print usage message"""
   # TODO print more useful help message
   print 'Usage: notify.py [--app=] [-s|--summery=] []'

class DBus():
   """Wrapper class for notify daemon dbus interface"""

   def __init__(self):
      self.__notify = dbus.SessionBus().get_object('org.kde.VisualNotifications', '/VisualNotifications')
   
   def notify(self, app_name='', replaces_id=dbus.UInt32(), event_id='', app_icon='', summery='', body='', actions=dbus.Array(signature='s'), hints=dbus.Dictionary(signature='sv'), timeout=0):
      self.__notify.Notify(app_name, replaces_id, event_id, app_icon, summery, body, actions, hints, timeout)

   def closeNotification(self, event_id):
      self.__notify.CloseNotification(event_id)

if __name__ == "__main__":
   main();


To dig up an old thread, I have been looking for a such a script, found the one in the post above, did some Googling about Python, and modified it to this:

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#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# originally script found at viewtopic.php?f=66&t=23580

import dbus
from optparse import OptionParser

def main():
   parser = OptionParser(usage="%prog [options] <summary> [body]", version="%prog 0.1")
   parser.add_option("-a", "--app", dest="app_name", help="Specifies the application name.", default="notify-dbus.py")
   parser.add_option("-i", "--icon", dest="icon", help="Specifies an icon filename or stock icon to display.", default="")
   parser.add_option("-t", "--expire-timeout", type="int", dest="timeout", help="Specifies the timeout in milliseconds at which to expire the notification.", default=0)
   (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
   if len(args) < 1:
      parser.error("No summary specified.")
   if len(args) > 1:
       BODY = args[1]
   else:
       BODY = ""
   dbus = DBus()
   dbus.notify(app_name=options.app_name, app_icon=options.icon, summary=args[0], body=BODY, timeout=options.timeout)

class DBus():
   """Wrapper class for notify daemon dbus interface"""

   def __init__(self):
      self.__notify = dbus.SessionBus().get_object("org.freedesktop.Notifications", "/org/freedesktop/Notifications")
      self.__iface = dbus.Interface(self.__notify, "org.freedesktop.Notifications")
   
   def notify(self, app_name='', replaces_id=dbus.UInt32(), app_icon='', summary='', body='', actions=dbus.Array(signature="s"), hints=dbus.Dictionary(signature="sv"), timeout=0):
      self.__iface.Notify(app_name, replaces_id, app_icon, summary, body, actions, hints, timeout)

if __name__ == "__main__":
   main();