Want To Help "Patch The Universe" To Use Notify-Osd?

Earlier I posted news about the wiki page Mirco Müller (SlowMac) setup about notification development guidelines. In the "Development & Programming > Jaunty Jackalope Testing and Discussion" forum at ubuntuforum.org, Mirco Müller today posted information for adapting the software of your choice to correctly use the new notification system.

Quote:

Do you like the new notifications? Do you like hacking? Do you want to help out with the jaunty jackalope?

Here's your kickstart for adapting the software of your choice to correctly use the new notification system:
* notification development guidelines

If that isn't enough and you want to dive even deeper into the subject, reading these here will help:
* notification design guidelines
* notify-osd - the spec

Happy hacking!

Best regards ...
Mirco "MacSlow" Müller

A How-To For Writing Notifications

Mirco Müller has written a wiki page about notification development guidelines. Though it isn’t done yet, C, Python and C#-examples are provided there. These examples are self-contained and act as a good copy&paste source for anybody who wants to adapt existing or new code to the Jaunty notifications. You’ll see correct checking of daemon capabilities and name. For a better overview of the different layout-cases screenshots are shown too.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDevelopmentGuidelines

What's MacSlow' Surprise?

Mirco "MacSlow" Müller, also known as "the king of bling", just released a very short blogpost where he reveals that something slick and stylish coming you way within the next few hours. The post is titled Surprise, surprise.

Mirco Müller is known for his work on the GDM login experience which we hope will land in Jaunty +1, but he will also be involved in the Plymouth development for Ubuntu.

As with all the amazing work of Mirco Müller, I'm really looking forward to this surprise. I will of course follow up on the story as more details are revealed. My guess is that he is talking about the new notification system. If you've got any idea what he is talking about, post your guesses below.

User experience, bling and eye candy

Canonical have for months been hiring designers and user experience staff. It has taken much longer than they hoped, but in January/February hopefully a new team will be in place. Whether their initial work will make a dramatic visual impact on Jaunty, no one knows yet. At the Ubuntu Open Week Thusday 6. November 2008 Mark Shuttleworth made this statement in a Q+A session:

...I know that other work, on the user experience front, will land, but i'll keep some surprises in store till later.

You can grab the whole Q+A session on the Ubuntu Open Week wiki.

The new team, the Canonical Desktop Experience Team, is coming together, but recently Mirco Müller (aka the king of bling) registered a new very interesting team called Bling Brigade.
Both teams looks very promising (and very much alike) in the case of bringing a greater user experience, bling and eye candy to the linux desktop.

Let hope these new teams will succeed. If your unfamilliar with Mirco Müllers work, you can be enlightened be the video clip below or check his website http://macslow.thepimp.net/

UPDATE: The video seems to be down at the moment so here's the direct link: http://macslow.thepimp.net/projects/lowfat/preview-1.avi