Noel J. Bergman wrote: > This came from Bug 333517, where I had asked commented about the > absolutely incessant and irritating problem where with service- > discovery-applet, the notice window is almost CONSTANTLY showing up to > indicate what services appear and disappear? I don't so much mind the > notifications as I do that they are in a highly crucial part of the > screen, rather than out of the way. > > I am attending a conference and, using it as an example, notify-osd has > already been active for the past hour quite literally non-stop. Rather > annoying when it is sitting over the titlebar and tab area of browsers > and apps, despite the fact that it will fade when mouse hovers. So much > for being unobtrusive. > > Mind you, I'm not sure that the service-discovery-applet is at fault. > What else should it do, other than provide filters, when services come > and go? > You said it all: * provide filters * buffer some events, so that instead of telling you 100 times that a new service is available, it would tell you that 100 similar services are available * detect harder when services are unstable (toggling between available / unavailable)
There is a similar scalability issue with printers: on a large enterprise network, you may be spammed every morning by notifications from new available printers. Matthew: thought? -- service-discovery-applet displays too many notifications https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348377 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
