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Notifications can optionally have a type indicator. Although neither client or nor server must support this, some may choose to. Those servers implementing notification types may use them to intelligently display the notification in a certain way, or group notifications of similar types.
The following table lists standard notifications as defined by this spec. More will be added in time.
Table 2. Notification Types
| Type | Description |
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| "email" | An e-mail notification. |
| "im" | A new IM notification. |
| "device" | A device-related notification, such as a USB device being plugged in or unplugged. |
| "presence" | A presence change, such as a user going online or offline. |
| "transfer-complete" | A file transfer or download complete notification. |
Third parties, when defining their own notification types, should discuss the possibility of standardizing on the hint with other parties, preferably in a place such as the xdg mailing list at freedesktop.org. If it warrants a standard, it will be added to the table above. If no consensus is reached, the notification type should be in the form of "x-vendor-name."
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