Colibri

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What is it?
Colibri 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.

Dependencies

You need kdelibs >= 4.4.

Setup
Colibri can be configured from its System Settings module.
If you need help follow the setup howto at http://gitorious.org/colibri/pages/SetupHowto.

A bit of history

Passive notifications for Plasma first appeared as "Ayatana notifications", an alternative notification system I implemented in Kubuntu Karmic as part of my work for Canonical.

Ayatana notifications were implemented as a patch against the systemtray applet. Colibri is based on this work, but does not require patching any applet.

Colibri contains code I wrote for Canonical, but it is not a Canonical product.
Last changelog:

7 years ago

2013.05.14 - 0.3.0
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

2011.09.25 - 0.2.2
Fixes
- Plug three small mem leaks. Should also fix a rare crasher. (Aurélien Gí¢teau)

Translations
- Brasilian Portuguese (Caio Romí£o)
- Slovakian (Slavko)
- Italian (Federico Chiacchiaretta)
- Czech (Pavel Fric)
- Spanish (gejo)

2010.08.06 - 0.2.1
Fixes
- Disable KWin shadows.
- Quit if we can't register as the notification handler.

2010.08.05 - 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 í‡aÄŸlayan.
- German translation by Michael Gangolf.
- Serbian translation for desktop file by Mladen Pejaković.

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.

2010.02.16 - 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.

2009.12.15 - 0.1.0
- First release.

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janet

10 years ago

I don't understand - what is ugly about that? IMHO it really looks fine...

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marvinf

10 years ago

ok, now i can compile it. had a wrong version of attica installed.

i have the same problem here. no shadows around air popups with 0.2.1. same problem with version 0.2.0. looks exactly like on the screenshot of gomezhyuuga1.

i'm using nvidia driver. there is also no blur effect (no shadows also with blur disabled).

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gejobj

10 years ago

Mandriva 2010.1 version here:
http://blogdrake.net/consulta/colibri-disponible-en-el-repositorio-de-blogdrake

Bye.

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marvinf

10 years ago

hello!

I'm getting this error while compiling:

/usr/lib/libknewstuff3.so.4: undefined reference to `Attica::Provider::hasContentService() const'

Using KDE SC 4.4.95 on Arch.

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FSchulz

10 years ago

I use the package from AUR and it works great for me. Do you tried it?

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bk12

10 years ago

That's weird, Colibri does not directly use these libraries. I am afraid something is wrong with your system.

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FSchulz

10 years ago

Thank you very much! It works like a charme!

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bigbrovar

10 years ago

Just dropped by to say thanks for the great work. guess thats all I have to say.

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lelamal

10 years ago

Hi, thanks for your work on Colibri, it is really appreciated! Is the download provided here the only way to install it, or is there any chance to use a PPA to keep it always up-to-date? Many thanks!

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bk12

10 years ago

I may set up a PPA for it later, but don't hold your breath on it :)

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lelamal

10 years ago

OK, I won't =). Many thanks for everything, anyway!

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k4misiek

10 years ago

I Love colibri notification!
It's very similar to notofiy-osd but more beatiful thanks to a lot of plasma themes ;)

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sakirst

10 years ago

Here's a small suggestion to fix the "thick" shadows when using the blur effect in KDE 4.5. I had the same problem with the Smooth Tasks applet when I wrote a patch for it to support the blur effect. For the NotificationWidget class, override QWidget's default showEvent(), and in the function of course call QWidget::showEvent(), and then call Plasma::WindowEffects::overrideShadow(winId(), true);
It kills the KWin's shadows and uses only the shadows provided by the plasma theme.

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hash87

10 years ago

@sakirst
Could you share your modification for smooth-tasks (blur support) or is it already available somewhere?

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sakirst

10 years ago

I have not supplied a proper patch to the author of smooth-tasks yet, I have been really busy. I will try to get it to him as soon as possible.

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hash87

10 years ago

Perhaps you could share this patch in comments for smooth-tasks also, so that everyone (including myself) could apply this patch manually before it gets added by author ?:) I would really like to have fully functioning smooth-tasks tooltip in KDE 4.5 :P

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bk12

10 years ago

Thanks for this suggestion. I just applied it and will probably release 0.2.1 shortly to include this fix.

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sakirst

10 years ago

No problem! I really like this style of notifications, and this was the only flaw I saw so far. Glad I could help. Thank you for your work!

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DavidEdmundson

10 years ago

Anyone know how to get it working in KDE 4.5?

(I need to disable the default KDE notification part, but I can't figure out how)

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DavidEdmundson

10 years ago

Found it.
Right click on the "i" in the circle. Notification Settings
Uncheck Application notifications

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therealpxc

10 years ago

This notification system is pretty nice, but I would really like the ability to modify the width of the notifications. On my system, I have the notifications set to appear centered on the top section of my screen. There's plenty of horizontal space available, but for longer notifications, the text wraps down in lines in a way that I find frustrating.

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Morgenstern

10 years ago

I installed colibri on my Kubuntu LL from repositories; it works but that's what i get

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/831/cornerscreen.png

Why is it so yellow???? And... it's not passive: i can close it (that's good for me, but it's strange for colibri)...

I used to use it on KK and it worked very well...

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bk12

10 years ago

What you are seeing is not Colibri: it is Notification-daemon, the default GNOME notification display. You should be able to fix this by uninstalling notification-daemon.

Unfortunately there is no way right now for a DBus service like Colibri or Notification-daemon to specify it should only run on KDE or GNOME.

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Morgenstern

10 years ago

I disinstalled notification-daemon, now it works very well, tnx

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bigbrovar

10 years ago

I noticed this package now comes with lucid (repo) I installed it but i have not been able to enable it. I tried choosing a position from systemsettings and rebooted like twice still the default notification is what comes up. any thought on this

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7 years ago

2013.05.14 - 0.3.0
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

2011.09.25 - 0.2.2
Fixes
- Plug three small mem leaks. Should also fix a rare crasher. (Aurélien Gí¢teau)

Translations
- Brasilian Portuguese (Caio Romí£o)
- Slovakian (Slavko)
- Italian (Federico Chiacchiaretta)
- Czech (Pavel Fric)
- Spanish (gejo)

2010.08.06 - 0.2.1
Fixes
- Disable KWin shadows.
- Quit if we can't register as the notification handler.

2010.08.05 - 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 í‡aÄŸlayan.
- German translation by Michael Gangolf.
- Serbian translation for desktop file by Mladen Pejaković.

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.

2010.02.16 - 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.

2009.12.15 - 0.1.0
- First release.

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