FreeLists / haiku-development / [haiku-development] Re: Notification Server?

[DarkWyrm <darkwyrm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephan Assmus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think it should be done. To address the problem and fears that DarkWyrm and 
> others have mentioned, I suggest to introduce a non-optional "importance" 
> parameter to be handled to the notification function. This way the programmer 
> is forced to conciously decide what the importance level of the message is. 
> For the configuration of the server, I suggest a two way filter. The simple 
> configuration would be the level of importance below which messages are 
> suppressed. Additionally to that, the user should be allowed to suppress 
> messages of certain applications. To make this easy, the GUI for that should 
> list all known applications which have send notifications up to this point. 
>
> DarkWyrm and others, do you think this would address your concerns?
At the risk of making it overly-customizable, I would say the user 
should be able to completely turn it off and also be able to filter by 
application and importance. Despite the fact that the default settings 
stink, Zeta did the right thing in the way that the preferences were 
handled. The best way to do it I would think would be to have a dropdown 
which set the cutoff, like Critical | Major | Minor | Informational with 
a default set to Major or something.
--DarkWyrm