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, [Quote] The Reason A large number of Fedora users don't read the Fedora wiki & websites, thus, they miss important news, tips & notifications. [/Quote] Perhaps the solution should be encouragement or even a guided sign up to a mailing list during first log-in. [Quote] A simple application that reads a multilanguage web feed & post a new notification to the system using a D-Bus notifications system. [/Quote] 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. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
