Fedora Notifications System.

[Michal Hlavinka]

On Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:13:29 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Michal Hlavinka wrote:
> >> Well, IMHO Kopete shouldn't spam notifications for this type of non-
> >> exceptional event at all. Is this enabled by default? If so, maybe we
> >> should disable it by default in kde-settings?
> > 
> > afaik it's enabled by default and not only for kopete. Kopete as many
> > other apps uses kde notifications subsystem for a long time.
> 
> The problem is not that notifications are enabled by default (of course
> they are), but what kind of notifications are enabled. The ones Kopete
> issues don't make sense.
> 
> > You can check it in system settings->notifications.
> > 
> > I don't think it should go to different kind of notifications or
> > where/how do you think these notifications should be displayed?
> 
> Not at all. A change in online status of a contact should be reflected in
> your contact list, but is otherwise irrelevant.

it's not irrelevant if you are trying to catch online someone who is online 
only time to time

> > for example kopete - there's deffinitely no need to have both "9:35:04
> > User Xyz is typing" and "9:35:08 User Xyz send new message:...."
> > notifications
> 
> That "User Xyz is typing" notification is also unhelpful and redundant and
> should just be disabled by default.

also has use case for me, so even this is disabled by default, I'll turn it on 
again
 
> I'll bring this up in the KDE SIG meetings, I think we should really
> disable that stuff by default in kde-settings.

disabling something won't fix it, also I don't think this is that bad that it 
requires extra patch to turn it off by default and diverge from upstream