[haiku-development] Re: Comments on these possible OptionalPackages
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 11:33:13 +0200
On 2009-05-13 at 09:41:48 [+0200], Pier Luigi Fiorini
<pierluigi.fiorini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/5/13 Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > Pier Luigi Fiorini <pierluigi.fiorini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Matt Madia ha scritto:
> > > > InfoPopper hasn't yet been tested with MDR, but works quite nicely
> > > > with Vision.
> > > InfoPopper would be a great addition to the OptionalPackages and a
> > > test
> > > from MDR users would be awesome too.
> > > In my humble opinion, InfoPopper is a must-have component given that a
> > > lot of other operating systems have a notification system fully
> > > integrated.
> >
> > Hm, I'm a bit torn on that one; personally, I don't miss those popups
> > at all. I think it's usually overdone in other systems with a lot of
> > superfluous information passed via those sometimes annoying buggers.
> >
> >
> It's up to the applications, software that uses InfoPopper should not
> bother the user too much.
> And remember that InfoPopper is disabled by default and it can be
> configured to block some notification messages.
I think there are definitely useful situations for it. And I'd rather have
a standard that ships with the base distro than some apps rolling their own.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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