[Ambassadors] Just an idea...

[Mahmoud Abdul Jawad]

in fact, what you said about the "web" part is the best option, however,
creating a AIR or Titanium is really bad idea.
a simple console based program can connect to the internet & get the
updates, & post them to dbus notifications, here is a python example of how
to use the dbus notifications:

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import dbus
bus = dbus.SessionBus()
notifications = bus.get_object('org.freedesktop.Notifications',
'/org/freedesktop/Notifications')
interface = dbus.Interface(notifications, 'org.freedesktop.Notifications')
id = 4856
timeout = 2500
interface.Notify('name',id,'','summary','body','','',timout)
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2010/8/3 Manuel Escudero <Jmlevick at gmail.com>

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> 2010/8/3 Ryan Lewis <me at ryanlewis.net>
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> I'd be willing to join such a project.
>>
>> -rhl
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>> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:50 AM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>>  On 08/03/2010 01:31 PM, Manuel Escudero wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > So because of this, I came out with an idea, it's just an idea, don't
>>> > know if you may consider it important and/or interesting:
>>> >
>>> > Why don't we use a "second notification system" I mean, by example, we
>>> > can add to anaconda an additional step
>>> > to let people create some kind of FAS account in order to win more
>>> > "adepts" and also giving us the chance of notify
>>> > them by e-mail or something like that when this kind of problems
>>> > happen. (Of course, if they agree with that)
>>> >
>>> > Or maybe a Fedora News Digest app integrated in all major desktop
>>> > enviroments and activable only under users order...
>>> >
>>> > Don't Know... Just an idea, any words to add?
>>> >
>>> > P.S. I contributed with my two cents by making a blog post announcing
>>> > the bug and also asked the "thisweekinlinux" guy to talk about it in
>>> > his next video
>>> > in order to let more users to be awared of the bug and able to fix it,
>>> > he agreed by the way :)
>>>
>>> It has been suggested before.  It just requires someone to write such a
>>> app and convince the different teams to include it by default.   Are you
>>> willing to look into that?
>>>
>>> Rahul
>>>
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>
> Well, I build Simple but functional webapps and webpages... I certanly can
> build a web gadget with a feed parsing function so when you run the app (or
> if you have it open) you recieve all the important Fedora News in the moment
> they are generated, a "Notifier" to call it in some way. I can bring it to
> the Desktop using technologies such as Adobe AIR (I know we have problems
> with AIR because it's not free) But there is also Titanium, I never used it
> but it's suposed to furfill the air's functions being opensource. There is
> also another alternative: Mozilla Prism. We add this program to fedora and
> somehow create a launcher for the webgadget in the O.S.
>
> Also, if we're going to work with web gadgets I bet there's a PLASMA WIDGET
> to serve as a notifier so there should be one similar app for Gnome (Like a
> Screenlet or I don't Know) But the other Option can be to put these apps for
> default opened in all major desktops, parsing the Fedora Feed. By Fedora
> Feed i refer to any of the news feeds of the project, it can be the Twitter
> Feed, one from blogger, Facebook, I don't Know (Or maybe we can build a new
> one just for these cases, don't know, I'm just giving ideas)
>
> That's the help I can offer, I only work with Web Code...
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