Bug 180730 - OSD-like interface for showing hardware notifications
Summary: OSD-like interface for showing hardware notifications
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: kdelibs
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: knotify (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
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Assignee: Olivier Goffart
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Reported: 2009-01-14 21:53 UTC by Michal Witkowski
Modified: 2019-05-21 09:44 UTC (History)
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Description Michal Witkowski 2009-01-14 21:53:27 UTC 
Version:           unknown (using 4.1.96 (KDE 4.1.96 (KDE 4.2 RC1)), Arch Linux)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.27-ARCH

hi

It seems that KDE 4 lacks a decent OSD-like notification system for things like brightness, volume etc. I mean, KDE 4 is really maturing and a HAL-related OSD-like notification system is really needed. Previously, Kmilo seemed to do a decent job, but now that it's gone and  there's nothing to notify the user of what's going on with his system. 

Also it would be nice for this OSD display to be easily accessible from the command-line. For example I've got an asus laptop and an ACPI/bash script for controlling it's special keys (bluetooth/wifi/changing displays etc). In KDE 3.5 I just used kmilo dcop interface from a script to display the messages I needed, like this:
kded kmilod displayText "Touchpad Off" 

Is anything like this planned?