Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Alerting users in case of write errors (sl#1842)

2010-06-14 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 05:27:56PM +0530, Anish Mangal wrote: Thanks for the insightful responses. I have used a slightly modded version of NotifyAlert (aptly called NotifyRedAlert). A sample screen-capture can be found here... Reviewed. I don't like timed alerts, since we have no guarantee

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Alerting users in case of write errors (sl#1842)

2010-06-13 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Anish, On 13 Jun 2010, at 12:57, Anish Mangal anishmangal2...@gmail.com wrote: An alert like a chat or Activity sharing invitation would be nice, but one with a more visible signal is needed. We really really really ... need a general notification system. :D Please no popup error

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Alerting users in case of write errors (sl#1842)

2010-06-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 20:56, Martin Abente mabe...@paraguayeduca.org wrote: We really really really ... need a general notification system. :D You may not believe it, but the shell has an implementation of http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/ . We need more activities to use it

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Alerting users in case of write errors (sl#1842)

2010-06-11 Thread Walter Bender
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 20:56, Martin Abente mabe...@paraguayeduca.org wrote: We really really really ... need a general notification system. :D You may not believe it, but the shell has an implementation of

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Alerting users in case of write errors (sl#1842)

2010-06-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 17:46, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 20:56, Martin Abente mabe...@paraguayeduca.org wrote: We really really really ... need a general notification system. :D

[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Alerting users in case of write errors (sl#1842)

2010-06-10 Thread Anish Mangal
I was planning on fixing sl#1842 [1] but I'm not sure what should be the correct method of alerting users incase a write error does occur. Should I popup a dialog box, or use alerts like the one used in chat, sugar-commander? Suggestions welcome. [1] http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1842,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Alerting users in case of write errors (sl#1842)

2010-06-10 Thread Frederick Grose
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Anish Mangal anishmangal2...@gmail.comwrote: I was planning on fixing sl#1842 [1] but I'm not sure what should be the correct method of alerting users incase a write error does occur. Should I popup a dialog box, or use alerts like the one used in chat,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Alerting users in case of write errors (sl#1842)

2010-06-10 Thread Martin Abente
We really really really ... need a general notification system. :D On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:39 -0400, Frederick Grose wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Anish Mangal anishmangal2...@gmail.com wrote: I was planning on fixing sl#1842 [1] but I'm not sure what should be