On Tuesday August 24 2010 03:47:47 DJ Delorie wrote:
On 08/23/2010 02:37 PM, Mahmoud Abdul Jawad wrote:
> before two weeks, a discussion started in ambassadors mailing-list about
> a work around to deliver the important notifications to the fedora
> desktop (whatever the desktop is).
What a horrible idea. Please PLEASE don't make it the default, and
certainly make sure I can yum remove it (because I *will* remove it).
I get enough spam already, I don't need yet another well-known way
for spammers to hack into my system and put ads in front of my face.
I also don't need yet another Surprise! distraction popping up on my
desktop.
Besides, we already have a way to do this - it's called e-mail.
Or twitter. Or usenet. Or facebook. Or the web. Or IRC. Let people
choose whether to get notices or not, and how, don't force it down their
throats the way some big companies do.
Totally agree,
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The Reason
A large number of Fedora users don't read the Fedora wiki & websites, thus,
they miss important news, tips & notifications.
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Perhaps the solution should be encouragement or even a guided sign up to a
mailing list during first log-in.
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A simple application that reads a multilanguage web feed & post a new
notification to the system using a D-Bus notifications system.
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now I am not an expert about D-Bus notifications system, but as far as I know
this notifications last for short duration, and there is no way to read the
history (sort of speak)
so E-Mail sounds much better.
or perhaps a desktop widget that you can remove if you don't like...
I hope those are constructive comments, I have no other intentions.
Keep up the good work and effort.
Thanks,
YB.