Popup notification for output while hidden

[phip]

It would be useful if Guake could display a notification when a terminal posts new output and Guake is hidden. The notification would list the name of the tab and optionally the output line.

[makism]

Hello, i really like the idea. If by output, you mean "any changes made to the terminal, even resetting the terminal", i think i can provide a patch for such functionality. Moreover, i think that the multiple and/or continuous popups would be irritating, so maybe there could an option that instead of poping up notification, it would just blink the tray icon (if exists on traybar). Also, i searched if its possible to access the scrollback buffer but i didnt find anything useful.

[makism]

After compiling a patch, i found out that this feature can be _really_ irritating. So, i was thinking that, maybe there would an option what would "watch" a specific terminal for changes, or "ignore" a specific terminal. The latter seems more reasonable. Any thoughts?

(i`ll post the experimental patch after i clean it up a bit...)

[phip]

I think having the Guake traybar icon turn from green to red when there is unviewed output would be unobtrusive.

[makism]

Oh well, here is the experimental patch. Every terminal is watched for changes and every 5 seconds the guake-terminal tray icon blinks for 30 seconds or until the guake-terminal is shown.

Ill search a bit more to see if i can use gobjects io_add_watch to watch only -if possible- for output.

1. MUST have tray icon enabled - a later patch will fix this. 2. the intervals are hardcoded - a later patch will fix this too.

apply against 0.4.0

[makism]

Updated patch (plus some minor changes to file guake.glade) The notes from the previous version still apply.

Added an "ignore output" option, on the tab menu (the one which popups when right clicking over a tab).

Its somewhat ugly, this "ignore output" feature (but handy) because i couldnt find a better way to associate the tabs with the terminals. Please comment on this

There are some things that can be improved.

[makism]

Updated, implement "ignore output" option

[makism]

Add the "ignore option" on the tab menu