[haiku-development] Re: infoPopper info_server
- From: "Salvatore Benedetto" <emitrax@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:00:33 +0000
On 11/04/2008, Petter Holt Juliussen <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Axel Dörfler skrev:
>
>
> > "Pier Luigi Fiorini" <pierluigi.fiorini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > It's something that is standard on (almost) every system.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > 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.
> > 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 for one hate Windows' popup balloon are annoying. What about making a
> "list" of all the plugins,
> so that the user can disable/enable each, and perhaps change degree of
> notifications (silet/verbose(?)),
> and or change in detail what it will notify about (for example "When IM
> buddy logs on" and so on..
> This may be implied though. I for one hate when "Your buddy logged in"
> while watching a film, but
> battery-notification is important enough. Making it customizable is at
> least a must.
>
I agree. It sounds like a "notification preference" would fit the job
similar to the one
glowl has.
Regards
--
Salvatore Benedetto (a.k.a. emitrax)
Student of Computer Engineer
University of Pisa
www.messinalug.org
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