Hey Everyone,

Today I got envious of all the apps that create those shiny notifications, so I decided to put together an app in Qt to see how to do it.

Unfortunately the QMaemo5InformationBox doesn't display the style of notifications I needed.

So, I went to IRC and asked the good people in #qt-maemo, and they said that Qt doesn't have an abstraction of this particular UI element. They pointed me to this guide on Forum Nokia, which almost did it. Unfortunately it doesn't work with MADDE.

After hours of suffering and pain I successfully overcame the limitations of MADDE (again, thanks to the good people at #qt-maemo), and I put together a small example in the repo of my project.

Here it goes:

• Check out this SVN repo or download the sources
• Copy-paste my QMaemo5Notification class (header and cpp file)
• Make sure you have added all the necessary libraries to your .pro file's INCLUDEPATH and LIBS. (See the example .pro file)
• it is necessary to put "CONFIG += no_keywords" into the .pro file because the headers required contain keywords that are otherwise reserved by Qt.
  If you would use them in your own code, I recommend you to put QMaemo5Notification into its own project file (or .pri file)

That's it.
Now you can just do this:

Of course it has some tasty overloads to exploit libnotify's functionality.

I hope I could spare some people the pain I went through, so I decided to share this with the community.