[haiku-development] Re: Notification Server?
- From: "Ryan Leavengood" <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 16:12:52 -0400
On 5/23/07, Jonas Sundström <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I suppose the engine is already revved up on this but
I'm wondering if all this isn't contrary to one of Haiku's
leading guidelines: to be "free of any unnecessary
complexities".
I'm surprised no one has brought this up earlier, since I was kind of
asking this in my original email. Are notifications a complexity?
Maybe if done badly or overused. Can they be useful? I think so. I
feel this is the kind of feature that is best provided by the OS,
instead of having a various incompatible 3rd party alternatives.
Though Axel and Stephan have suggested a few more features
(notification categories and priorities, which maybe could be
combined), in general this is a simple idea, and can be elegantly
implemented in a "Be" way.
Do we really want this?
I say yes.
For what purpose?
To provide a system-wide system for sending notifications to the user
of various events that they are interested in, or none if they so
choose.
Ryan
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