[haiku-development] Re: infoPopper info_server
- From: "Salvatore Benedetto" <emitrax@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:54:42 +0000
On 11/04/2008, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Pier Luigi Fiorini" <pierluigi.fiorini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It's something that is standard on (almost) every system.
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>
> Sure, but I haven't seen an implementation yet that didn't annoy me.
> It's a balancing act in getting useful information to the user, and not
> interrupting him in his work.
There are definitely many abuse examples on linux based system (though you
can easily turn them off). For example, when a new song is played, a new email
arrived (in case you are subscribed to mailing list it becomes very
annoying), and quite
a few other example.
> In the example of Salvatore, a simple notifcation is not enough, though
> - when the system has no battery power anymore, the user indeed should
> be interrupted :-)
I think we should/could provide a priority based system information,
where very urgent notification like this one should use OSD, instead
of a simply notification.
Another useful information an OS should notify is when you are running
out of space, though
I'd like to have that information always easily viewable on my desktop.
>
> Bye,
>
> Axel.
>
>
>
Regards,
--
Salvatore Benedetto (a.k.a. emitrax)
Student of Computer Engineer
University of Pisa
www.messinalug.org
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