Fedora Notifications System.

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On 08/24/2010 06:41 PM, Mahmoud Abdul Jawad wrote:
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> thanx for the worthless discussion with you, g

you are most welcome.

> i guess your (ZERO) points about the application are very great, & i'm 
> going to implement them all.

if you read back thru post, you will see that i did post a '+1' to point
made that i fully agree with and did not see need to write them all
over again.

personally, see no benefit of adding something else to desktop that will
somewhere along the line be a potential problem. especially when desktops,
ie, kde, are always changing and in changing, breaking.

therefore, to insure that users are notified, notices should be sent thru
list subscriptions.

i subscribe to user, announce, xen, admin, redhat security, and kde list
and i am considering subscribing to dev list.

in so doing, i do keep up with most of what is happening and i see no
reason why notifications can not be cross posted to list to inform one
and all when needed.

nor do i see any reason that there would be any complaints of such cross
posting by subscribers of list.

something that you may not have given consideration to, what happens
when a fedora user has fedora system off for a few days of he is using
another distribution and is still reading his emails and something
critical comes up like an exploit that can wipe entire installation as
soon as he runs a program that has a time delayed bomb in it and this
bomb is set for while he is out of fedora?

very simple, he loses everything. why, because he was running a distrib
that was unaware and he did not get notified because notification did not
come via email.

this to me is a big flaw in a very fine distribution.

there is nothing wrong with your concept if you not only have a
notification system and an email notification and ability to disable
notification system.

another plus would be if notification system was designed to watch for
emails with a key in them that would trigger notification system to pop
up a notice on desktop, as long as feature had ability to disable.

another flaw in automatic checking is what would happen if crazies decided
to run a DoS for url that check is made thru. in so running DoS, they
intercept and respond with a bogus 'all clear' of send a false 'danger'
with an update notice. then when user tries to run update, another DoS is
running against url for updates and another intercept is set up to download
some form of malware or bomb.

yes, this is a lot of 'what ifs', but what if it was done?

therefore, i still say, *BAD IDEA*. it gains nothing.

in closing, thank you for posting 'text/plain'. now your post will be
easier to follow and read by others who trap 'text/html'.

-- 

peace out.

tc,hago.

g
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