Fedora Notifications System.

[Germán A. Racca]

On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 20:47 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> On 08/23/2010 02:37 PM, Mahmoud Abdul Jawad wrote:
> > before two weeks, a discussion started in ambassadors mailing-list about
> > a work around to deliver the important notifications to the fedora
> > desktop (whatever the desktop is).
> 
> What a horrible idea.  Please PLEASE don't make it the default, and 
> certainly make sure I can yum remove it (because I *will* remove it).

+1

> I get enough spam already, I don't need yet another well-known way
> for spammers to hack into my system and put ads in front of my face.
> I also don't need yet another Surprise! distraction popping up on my 
> desktop.

+1

> Besides, we already have a way to do this - it's called e-mail.
> Or twitter.  Or usenet.  Or facebook.  Or the web.  Or IRC.  Let people 
> choose whether to get notices or not, and how, don't force it down their 
> throats the way some big companies do.

+1
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Germán A. Racca
National Institute for Space Research (INPE)
São José dos Campos - SP - Brasil
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