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(First draft of the notifications for WebOS-Ports)
 
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== Target ==
 
== Target ==
 
The notification API needs to be updated in WebOS-Ports. The requirements for this API are:
 
The notification API needs to be updated in WebOS-Ports. The requirements for this API are:
- Compatible with Freedesktop's notifications API http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/0.9/index.html
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* Compatible with Freedesktop's notifications API http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/0.9/index.html
- Flexible
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* Flexible
- Simple to use
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* Simple to use
- Include creation, update and deletion of notifications
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* Include creation, update and deletion of notifications
  
 
One candidate for inspiration is Chrome's notifications API: see https://developer.chrome.com/apps/notifications .
 
One candidate for inspiration is Chrome's notifications API: see https://developer.chrome.com/apps/notifications .

Revision as of 10:40, 2 June 2014

Target

The notification API needs to be updated in WebOS-Ports. The requirements for this API are:

One candidate for inspiration is Chrome's notifications API: see https://developer.chrome.com/apps/notifications .

Current status of the API

* The DBus notifications are currently supported. 
* A very simple LS2 API is available: luna://org.webosports.luna/createNotification with the same arguments are for the DBus notification creation API.

Proposal

The current proposal is to integrate the ideas of the Chrome Notifications API (templates,...) while keeping a compatibility with Freedesktop's notifications.