Hi, These times I’m planning to make my emacs notify me for mails (which should be trivial, I guess, with inotify, since my mail server is on my local computer and I use maildir).
Then I discovered there’s a “urgency level” for notifications, from “low” to “high”. I wondered if I couldn’t tweak that according who sent the mail. Except from the given examples, I induce this is not urgency (meaning it is relevant only for a limited amount of time and then it’s too late), but importance: this is reflected by the fact it is recommanded for implementations to let notifications with a level of “high” shown without timeout: this is precisely the opposite of urgent. For an urgency parameter, I would have expected something such as a timeout, or otherwise some hook to look if it’s still relevant. There’s the timeout parameter, but this sounds like a lot more imperative than semantic: I expect a such parameter is *only* meant to say “how long before the notif disappear”, not something such as you could decide that “proportionally to importance level, try to raise more the attention of the user when the timeout is soon expired”, nor “this notification might be relevant for the whole day, so I can show the more urgent but less important ones before” (*without* occupying the screen with it a whole day, which, again, is the opposite of properly taking core of urgency). So why not changing the name? and maybe try to find some way to have a such “urgency” way (maybe progressively?) without too much breaking compatibility. I think such semantic features could be very useful. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
