Haskellers, I present to you fdo-notify, a client library for FreeDesktop.org's Desktop Notifications protocol. This is the DBUS protocol served by NotifyOSD and other notifications systems, which allows a wide variety of applications to present notifications to the user in a uniform way. The library should not require knowledge of DBus or the Desktop Notifications protocol itself, at least once fully documented (there should be enough haddocumentation for basic use already). Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/fdo-notify Mercurial: http://bitbucket.org/taejo/fdo-notify/ Basic notifications and updated/replacement notifications are supported. Images are not yet supported (adding support should be easy, but which Image type? Is there a de facto standard imaging library like the Python Imaging Library?) and nor are signals. Signals allow an application to be informed when some action is taken on the notification (NotifyOSD doesn't support actions, but other implementations might). The library is released under the 3-clause BSD license, but depends on the dbus-core and dbus-client libraries which are GPLed. I hope you find this library useful. Regards, Max