Been busy lately due to uni work, so not much hacking time. I did enhance that messaging thing a little (not working on other stuff I'd like to work on yet as they're potential SoC projects :-)).
wall, write and other pty based communication support still isn't in there as I didn't manage to get something working (yet). Must be doing something completely wrong somehow.
I did add a "Reply" option to the incoming messages though. Currently the reply dialog is not HIG at all, no I18N support, it's crap PyGTK code, but it does work somewhat.
Here's a little demo (1MB animated GIF screencast, thanks Byzanz (and Company)!)
I made a first "release" for people who's want to play with this. You can find the tarball here, but note it needs work: checking for Python stuff in configure.in, fixing Python code, adding I18N support, get the dialog code inside the C daemon, as using a helper is plain stupid (I use a helper as it's pretty easy to create a GUI using PyGTK quickly).
TODO: incoming message throttling (so one can't flood you using smbclient in a shell for loop), I18N (damn intltool 's been driving me crazy), nicer UI, other messaging "protocol" support, get a Telepathy backend out of this (jdub's idea),...
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05/16/06 @ 16:53 Permalink
05/16/06 @ 17:26 I could add an option to display only incoming messages from the local network, for example.
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05/16/06 @ 17:38 When running, I get this error message:
File "dbus_bindings.pyx", line 1783, in dbus_bindings.bus_request_name
dbus_bindings.DBusException: Connection ":1.3" is not allowed to own the service "org.gnome.Messaging" due to security policies in the configuration file
Any idea what's wrong?
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05/16/06 @ 19:05 Were you trying to run the "message command" helper as a normal user?
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05/16/06 @ 19:39 Very cool little app, this.
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05/17/06 @ 22:48 But is there any chance to disable the close-massage-countdown and let me decide when to close it? and may it be in the source directly.
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08/13/06 @ 15:40 
very nice work there. Could you list all dependencies to be installed? And where can I find documentation about this dbus and/or gnome notification api?
thanks!
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