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NAME

Desktop::Notify - Communicate with the Desktop Notifications framework

VERSION

Version 0.03

SYNOPSIS

    use Desktop::Notify;

    # Open a connection to the notification daemon
    my $notify = Desktop::Notify->new();

    # Create a notification to display
    my $notification = $notify->create(summary => 'Desktop::Notify',
                                       body => 'Hello, world!',
                                       timeout => 5000);

    # Display the notification
    $notification->show();

    # Close the notification later
    $notification->close();

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a Perl interface to the Desktop Notifications framework.

The framework allows applications to display pop-up notifications on an X desktop. This is implemented with two components: a daemon that displays the notifications, and a client library used by applications to send notifications to the daemon. These components communicate through the DBus message bus protocol.

More information is available from http://trac.galago-project.org/wiki/DesktopNotifications

This module serves the same purpose as libnotify, in an object-oriented Perl interface. It is not, however, an interface to libnotify itself, but a separate implementation of the specification using Net::DBus.

METHODS

new %opts

Connect to the notification daemon. %opts can include the following options:

app_name: The application name to use for notifications. Default is basename($0)
bus: The Net::DBus mesage bus to use. Default is to call Net::DBus->session, which is usually where notification-daemon can be reached.
service: The DBus service name of the daemon. Default is org.freedesktop.Notifications.
objpath: The path to the notifications DBus object. Default is /org/freedesktop/Notifications.
objiface: The DBus interface to access the notifications object as. Default is org.freedesktop.Notifications.

create %params

Creates a new notification object that can be displayed later. This will return a Desktop::Notify::Notification object; see that module for information about using it.

close_callback $coderef

Sets a user-specified function to be called whenever a notification is closed. It will be called with one argument, which is the Notification object that was just closed.

AUTHOR

Stephen Cavilia, <sac at atomicradi.us>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-desktop-notify at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Desktop-Notify. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Desktop::Notify

You can also look for information at:

* AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation: http://annocpan.org/dist/Desktop-Notify
* CPAN Ratings: http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Desktop-Notify
* RT: CPAN's request tracker: http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Desktop-Notify
* Search CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Desktop-Notify

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.