On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 13:09 +0000, Calum Benson wrote: > On 6 Nov 2008, at 17:38, David Zeuthen wrote: > > > > But not all notifications comes from applications launched by the > > user. > > For example > > > > "There is a high probability that one or more of your hard disk will > > malfunction within the next 24 hours" > > > > "Your laptop battery is being recalled" > > > > "Security updates available" > > > > I'm not sure where we'd display stuff like this except for using icons > > in the notification area. > > Some sort of status icon change with an appropriate tooltip would > probably be sufficient for things that don't need immediate > attention. For things that do, or for which there is no status icon, > an alert box is often more appropriate anyway. > wasn't libnotify/notification-daemon created to replace alert boxes? I tend to find them quite useless, since I miss them most of the time while typing without looking at the screen, so I don't think they are a good solution for immediate attention stuff -- Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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