Fedora Notifications System.

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 06:26:52 pm Manuel Escudero wrote:
> 2010/8/24 Garrett Holmstrom <gholms at fedoraproject.org>
> 
> > Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > > Reading this - I'm not sure all Fedora notifications should go through
> > 
> > system
> > 
> > > notification system. Why? I understand it for urgent/priority
> > 
> > notification like
> > 
> > > "Close your desktop, nuclear war out there" (or just a security update
> > 
> > combined
> > 
> > > with some steps how to fix it). But I hope it should work for a lot of
> > 
> > things
> > 
> > > like Fedora elections etc. - this should for example go to your
> > > calendar,
> > 
> > some
> > 
> > > tips how to use Fedora (just a RSS feed like Plasma widget?) etc.
> > 
> > That essentially already exists [0], so just point your existing widgets
> > at that.  I personally think that shoving things of this nature in
> > users' faces is not the job of an operating system.
> > 
> > [0] http://planet.fedoraproject.org/atom.xml
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> 
> @Jaroslav: The idea is to have a way to communicate Fedora with the user
> and viceversa... If Fedora has another Important Bug like the "Update One"
> in Fedora 13
> "Hermes" will tell the user inmediatly and it will say the user how to fix
> it. The idea is to have not only a notification system, but also a way to
> keep the user in touch with Fedora.
> 
> I think that if there's already a plasma widget for a RSS Feed Parser (Or a
> screenlet in case of gnome) we can start working from there... I'll also
> would like to offer the user a "search bar" in hermes
> that uses fedora's database to give search results to the user, so when
> someone using fedora wants to know a "HowTo" instead of using Google,
> they'll have the option of "Fedora answering them"

Yes, we have plain RSS widget, the whole Plasma Desktop is completely scriptable 
so it offers lot of opportunites how we can interact with our users. I'll try to 
think more about it ;-)

Thanks
Jaroslav

> @Garret: Many things are not the job of an operating system already... The
> idea is to transform Fedora in more that just software... Let's transform
> it into a intelligent enviroment concerned about it's users
> and powered by it's community...

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