[haiku-development] Re: Comments on these possible OptionalPackages

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 12:49:42 +0200 CEST

Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2009-05-13 at 09:41:48 [+0200], Pier Luigi Fiorini
> <pierluigi.fiorini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 2009/5/13 Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 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.

True enough, though I don't think we should include it for R1, anymore,
or at least not with a public final API.

Bye,
   Axel.


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