Le Dim 21 juillet 2013 20:24, Chris Murphy a écrit : > > On Jul 21, 2013, at 10:55 AM, "Nicolas Mailhot" > <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> (state-of-the-art as in, what are Google >> and Amazon using to notify their users of events? Mail messages!> > > If you're talking about google calendar events, email is used only because > even with Chrome the pop-up notifications only work 1/2 the time. It's used because it works reliably, sure >> They >> would be ROFL if they were reading this conversation. If it's not done >> yet >> I predict they'll integrate their phones and tablets and notify you of >> problems by mail in the next years.) > > ?? So you think it's a good idea to have low battery, critical software > updates, maybe a virus alert, appear to the user in an email? That really > makes no sense, but I'm otherwise not thinking what else you mean by the > above. No, I think for *some* notification classes, async + reliable system-agnostic delivery is better than transient non-on-seen-it-and-anyway-gnome-suppressed-it popup > I think email is craptastic. There's too much of it in all forms. But the > worst is the kind that comes from automated systems. I want less of this, > not more of it. But every other system sucks more… At least most MUAs have built-in filtering/classification capabilities (under the user, not the designer control). -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
