2010/8/23 Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 11:03 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:The motivation for this system was that when we managed to break
> Why isn't this idea merged into PackageKit and the rest of the update
> infrastructure, which should take care of important notifications to
> users?
>
> Or were you expecting other types of notifications?
PackageKit's notification system, we couldn't use the PK notification
system to tell people to install the update to fix the PK notification
system. =)
(I suppose if we have two mechanisms, we'd have to try really hard to
break both of them at once. But I'm not really sure if a generic
mechanism for us to spam the user is a great idea.)
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We're Losing here:
a) Yes. My principal "underground" propouse with this idea was creating a Notification System that might be useful for all distros. That's the why I suggested the Name "Hermes" for the project
b) Let's test it first in Fedora and see how it goes, my idea was having a notification system that let the user Choose between what kind of news they wanna recieve in some part of the instalation process (trough anaconda) so
if they want the notifier ON they would have that option during the install and they will be able to choose between feeds.
By example, if I wanna recieve news about bugs, Everytime there's a problem like the update bug in Fedora 13 my notifier will pop out from the tray and will inform that to me as packagekit does when there's a update available and some seconds later it dissapears but I can still read that by clicking in the information button of KDE at the end of my panel.
By other hand, if one user wants to recieve all the news from all the fedora planet's blogs, obviously that user is going to recieve tons and tons of notifications...
In few words, my idea (Hermes) was focused in building a Feed Parser customizable by the user that can be turned on/off trough anaconda the first time the user installs...
For more details I invite you to read the full thread about hermes, wich was born in the ambassadors list, here's a "digest" just to call it something:
(That's the first message and the thread continous to the last message when mahmoud told me we're switching to the devel list)
Once you're awared about everything, I think it's going to be easier start joining ideas for the goal :)
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