I agree, this is a great idea.

I'm not even sure much work would be required other than getting the proper existing software into the mix.

For example, we could make sure the standard installs have xchat +  register them a nick on freenode, and then have it startup automagically and join #fedora (this is all existing stuff).

A simply (python) script could check for the latest fedora news and provide a button to click to open firefox and go to the right url.

-rhl

2010/8/3 Mahmoud Abdul Jawad <abduljawad.mahmoud@gmail.com>
in fact, what you said about the "web" part is the best option, however, creating a AIR or Titanium is really bad idea.
a simple console based program can connect to the internet & get the updates, & post them to dbus notifications, here is a python example of how to use the dbus notifications:

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import dbus
bus = dbus.SessionBus()
notifications = bus.get_object('org.freedesktop.Notifications', '/org/freedesktop/Notifications')
interface = dbus.Interface(notifications, 'org.freedesktop.Notifications')
id = 4856
timeout = 2500
interface.Notify('name',id,'','summary','body','','',timout)
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2010/8/3 Manuel Escudero <Jmlevick@gmail.com>


2010/8/3 Ryan Lewis <me@ryanlewis.net>

I'd be willing to join such a project.

-rhl


On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:50 AM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@gmail.com> wrote:
 On 08/03/2010 01:31 PM, Manuel Escudero wrote:
>
>
> So because of this, I came out with an idea, it's just an idea, don't
> know if you may consider it important and/or interesting:
>
> Why don't we use a "second notification system" I mean, by example, we
> can add to anaconda an additional step
> to let people create some kind of FAS account in order to win more
> "adepts" and also giving us the chance of notify
> them by e-mail or something like that when this kind of problems
> happen. (Of course, if they agree with that)
>
> Or maybe a Fedora News Digest app integrated in all major desktop
> enviroments and activable only under users order...
>
> Don't Know... Just an idea, any words to add?
>
> P.S. I contributed with my two cents by making a blog post announcing
> the bug and also asked the "thisweekinlinux" guy to talk about it in
> his next video
> in order to let more users to be awared of the bug and able to fix it,
> he agreed by the way :)

It has been suggested before.  It just requires someone to write such a
app and convince the different teams to include it by default.   Are you
willing to look into that?

Rahul

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Well, I build Simple but functional webapps and webpages... I certanly can build a web gadget with a feed parsing function so when you run the app (or if you have it open) you recieve all the important Fedora News in the moment they are generated, a "Notifier" to call it in some way. I can bring it to the Desktop using technologies such as Adobe AIR (I know we have problems with AIR because it's not free) But there is also Titanium, I never used it but it's suposed to furfill the air's functions being opensource. There is also another alternative: Mozilla Prism. We add this program to fedora and somehow create a launcher for the webgadget in the O.S.

Also, if we're going to work with web gadgets I bet there's a PLASMA WIDGET to serve as a notifier so there should be one similar app for Gnome (Like a Screenlet or I don't Know) But the other Option can be to put these apps for default opened in all major desktops, parsing the Fedora Feed. By Fedora Feed i refer to any of the news feeds of the project, it can be the Twitter Feed, one from blogger, Facebook, I don't Know (Or maybe we can build a new one just for these cases, don't know, I'm just giving ideas)

That's the help I can offer, I only work with Web Code... 


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