On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 00:46 +0400, Mahmoud Abdul Jawad wrote: > Hi all,, > > 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). > after some discussion, we started with some guide lines & putted them > on the wiki: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_notifications_system > > Continuing, I created an early prototype i want people to check & > gives feedbacks about it. > you can reach it through gitweb: > http://fedorapeople.org/gitweb?p=megenius/public_git/fns.git;a=summary > or, you can grab your own clone from the git repo: > git://fedorapeople.org/megenius/fns.git > > keep in mind that last_check file should be writeable by the world, & > you should change its value to an earlier date, so you can see some > notifications. > My immediate thought looking at your email was: - don't put 'Fedora' in the name: anything done here needs to be consumable by other distributions, and naming it 'Fedora' would be a big turn-off
But I see that you're using "Hermes" as a name (nice!). The code basically subscribes you to this RSS feed: http://rss.gmane.org/messages/excerpts/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.core.announce emitting the messages as desktop notifications. Some thoughts looking at the code: - it's legitimate for a computer to not have a internet connection, so the code needs avoiding spamming the user's session with the "There was a problem getting the latest notifications. Please check your internet connection" messages. - are these notifications a "system" level thing that the administrator of the box should see, or something that all users of the box should see? - is the RSS feed the correct one? Are the messages there appropriate for all users of Fedora? For example, should the messages be localized? Hope this is helpful Dave -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
