On 5/23/07, DarkWyrm <darkwyrm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
Do you just want to be able to simply disable certain apps (and have one global cutoff) or even choose the cutoff per app? I think the latter would be unnecessary. I just want to make sure. Also, the importance values should be named such that it's clear that normal applications should never use the most critical value (e.g., "System" instead of "Critical") and such that the meaning of those values is very clear. People have different understandings of "importance" and the developer might mark something as "Major" because it's the most important notification in his app whereas the users would rather call it "Informational" because on the grand scale it's not really important when a BitTorrent download finished. Bye, Waldemar Kornewald
