Informant

Note

As you can tell from the dates on this page and on the news page, this project has been largely abandoned. I still want this functionality in some sort. If I were to start writing this today, I would use D-Bus for communication and libnotify, part of the Galago project for on-screen notifications.

One of the things that was difficult for me was coming up with a sane way for configuring the varied events. It is a problem I would like to examine in detail at some future point.

If this functionality is interesting to you and would like an active project, check out Specto. They seem to have some of the same general ideas.

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What is it?

Informant is a set of utilities for keeping a user informed of events. It consists of an informant, which is the means by which the user is alerted to the occurrence of the said event, and a number of sources that "whisper" an alert to the informant when the event occurs.

The current implementation is implemented as a Gnome Panel applet or a stand alone Gtk program. It is implemented in the Python programming language and uses the Twisted network programming framework.

Informant is released under the LGPL.