Pantheon Notify: New Notification Daemon For elementary OS

It looks like Pantheon, the elementary OS DE will be getting a new notification daemon called Pantheon Notify which supports several notifications at once, it expands on hover if the text is too long to be displayed in a regular notification and it supports closing the notifications.

Here's a video I've recorded with the latest Pantheon Notify version in action:

(direct video link)

Pantheon Notify isn't ready to replace Ubuntu's Notify-OSD just yet - for instance, it doesn't support displaying notifications when changing the sound volume or notifications that use HTML (which is displayed as plain text in Pantheon Notify), but these issues shouldn't be too hard to fix.

Pantheon Notify is available for testing in the elementary OS daily PPA, for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin (and, obviously, elementary OS Luna). To try it, you'll have to "kill" notify-osd, then run "pantheon-notify".

Pantheon Notify @ Launchpad.

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Configurable NotifyOSD Notifications PPA Updated For Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot

The configurable NotifyOSD notification bubbles PPA has been updated for Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. This PPA provides a patched NotifyOSD that supports various customizations such as:

• change font and background colors, opacity, size, corner radius
• change the timeout (only works if an application specifies the timeout)
• change the position on the screen
• disable fade out
• close the notifications on click
• more

Here is and older video (recorded back when the PPA was updated for Ubuntu 11.04) demoing the configurable NotifyOSD notifications:

For installation and how to configure it, see the following post: Configurable NotifyOSD Bubbles For Ubuntu: Move, Close On Click, Change Colors And More - it has been updated with Ubuntu 11.10 instructions too (some settings now require using "gsettings" instead of gconf).

Please note that in my test I was able to set the notifications on all the supported screen positions (top left, bottom left, etc.), except for bottom right.

Thanks to inameiname for the tip and to Leolik for the PPA!

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