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Stef Coene wrote:
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 17:28, Rob Munsch wrote:
Epp, Matthew Contractor PEO EIS AKO wrote:
I have created an application using wxpython that reports Hobbit/Big Brother events directly to your desktop, for either Unix or Windows platforms. I'd very much like to try this - we whipped up a small silly perl script which was dubbed Sauron to "keep an eye on hobbit." It's just a desktop widget that reflects the color of the main status page. Same reason; easier to notice the colored eye sitting there, than to be staring at the webpage and let's not even talk about email ,-). I'm running linux on my laptop. I have 8 different desktops and when you have a webpage open on a desktop, the taskbar shows the favicon for that webpage.
So when I have hobbit running on a desktop I always see the hobbit status in myu webpage. (It's easier to see in a screen shot then to explain it, just runs linux and you will see ;) ).
i *am* running linux; however my goal is to move towards events coming to find me. I never want to have 8 different desktops, as that's kind of what i'm trying to get away from :D. The point is you still have to go look at what the taskbar is saying on that desktop.
As it is now, i have hobbit up on the first tab in firefox and that always shows the favicon too; other windows i have a few pixels to the right so it's always showing. But i still might spend 30 mins or an hour or more deeply into what i'm typing or reading, and not look up at the thing. A popup saying "HEY!" would solve that nicely :D
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