Colibri

Colibri is a package that provides an alternative to KDE4 Plasma notifications.

Colibri notifications look lighter and are completely passive: they do not provide any buttons. You may or may not like this.

Since they are completely passive, they smoothly fade away when you mouse over them, allowing you to interact with any window behind them.

They also do not stack each others: if multiple notifications happen, they will be shown one at a time.

What is new in this release:

• Fixes:
• Bring back drop shadows in KDE SC 4.10
• Use KMessageWidget in KCM
• Remove blank lines between concatenated notifications
• Moved to kde.org git repository

What is new in version 0.2.2:

• Fixes:
• Plug three small mem leaks. Should also fix a rare crasher. (Aurelien Gateau)
• Translations:
• Brasilian Portuguese (Caio Romao)
• Slovakian (Slavko)
• Italian (Federico Chiacchiaretta)
• Czech (Pavel Fric)
• Spanish (gejo)

What is new in version 0.2.1:

• Fixes:
• Disable KWin shadows.
• Quit if we can't register as the notification handler.

What is new in version 0.2.0:

• New features:
• When a second notification arrives from the same application, using the same title, append it to the existing notification.
• Notifications use blurred background on KDE 4.5.
• Notifications use a background halo behind text, similar to what Plasma tooltips do since KDE 4.4, as well as the Plasma theme foreground color.
• Implemented support for the replacesId parameter.
• It is now possible to specify the screen where the notifications will appear.
• A "Preview" button has been added to the KCM.
• It is now possible to start Colibri from within the KCM.
• Turkish translation by Ozan Caglayan.
• German translation by Michael Gangolf.
• Serbian translation for desktop file by Mladen Pejakovic.
• Fixes:
• KCM is now translatable.
• The KCM has moved (again!) to the notification group.
• Use an autostart file to start Colibri instead of relying on the DBus service system. This solves file conflict problems with other notification systems and ensures Colibri is started when the first KDE notification is sent.
• Fixed linking with gold.

What is new in version 0.1.1:

• Moved the KCM to the Desktop category.
• Emit the NotificationClosed() signal when a notification is closed. This fixes double notifications from Banshee.
• Implement the CloseNotification() method.

Requirements:

• KDE Plasma