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I've created a very simple chat (one to one chat) which works by just sending TCP-packets. The way it works at the moment is just by sending and receiving messages in the terminal. I would like to create a simple GUI that shows dialogs (modal i think it's called) in Gnome like in this picture:

Gnome Modal Dialog Chat

In other words just an application that runs in the background that pops up a modal if you receive a message, and then you can type in an answer and just press enter to send it.

Does anyone have an idea how to do this? Any examples of this online?

Lars Erik Storbukås
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  • https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/214/pidgin-conversation-integration/ – Rupesh Feb 23 '15 at 15:43
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    Potential explanation of the above: what you posted isn't a modal dialog, it's a GNOME Shell feature of sorts. The extension @rups linked is another such plugin. You can use its code to model your chat protocol. If you want to create a legitimate client, however, you'll need to find a way to get your network connections and GUI threads in sync. You can investigate [GIO's networking facilities](https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/highlevel-socket.html) (GIO is part of GLib, which GTK+ uses) or roll your own thing. I'm unfamiliar with doing this in C; sorry. Good luck! – andlabs Feb 24 '15 at 08:08

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