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Mumbles 0.4.2
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Welcome to Mumbles

Mumbles is a plugin-driven, DBus based notification system written for the Gnome desktop. Similar to libnotify notifications and Growl for OSX (http://growl.info), Mumbles aims to provide a modern notification system for the GNU/Linux Desktop.

More information can be found at
http://www.mumbles-project.org

-- Requirements --
* Python 2.4
* PyGTK 2.8
* Python Glade
* Python Cairo
* Python Dbus
* Python Setuptools

-- Installation & Running --

* install from deb pacakge and start with:
mumbles

-or-

* unzip the packaged file/check out from the svn repo
cd src/
./mumbles

use "mumbles --verbose" for more information


-- Pre-release Notes --
* Version 0.4.2 includes a new generic dbus plugin that allows simple additions of
mumbles alerts for dbus signals. Some of the plugins from the previous release have
been removed in favor of this method.
Run mumbles and check out the options in
~/.mumbles/generic

* Also, 0.4.2 includes a new libnotify interceptor. libnotify messages will now be replaced with mumbles alerts.
If you prefer to not have this happen, delete the libnotify .egg file.