using IRC is another good point.
i think, we can use another channel, such #fedora-notifications that
is just to submit such ones.
Regards,
Mahmoud Abul Jawad
@meGenius
2010/8/3 Ryan Lewis <me(a)ryanlewis.net <mailto:me@ryanlewis.net>>
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(a)gmail.com
<mailto: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:
----------------------------------
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)
----------------------------------
2010/8/3 Manuel Escudero <Jmlevick(a)gmail.com
<mailto:Jmlevick@gmail.com>>
2010/8/3 Ryan Lewis <me(a)ryanlewis.net
<mailto: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(a)gmail.com <mailto: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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https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors As well we could offer
a RSS Feed with the newest updates and another
one with special notifications.
Then we could subscribe by default the feeds in firefox or another RSS
client of your choice.
This would be easier than an application or flooding the freenode irc
with unused registered accounts.
Just my 2cents.