On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 20:02:42, Russ Allbery wrote: > Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle@coredump.us> writes: > > On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 15:46:15, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> That's exactly the point, and is why I would prefer not to write those > >> notifications into a file that no one ever looks at. (Which is why I > >> don't find sending them to syslog much more appealing, since the > >> average desktop user is never going to look there either.) > > > > Somehow this problem reminds me of the "event log" used on "a popular > > operating system". Most users don't read that log either. > > Yes, but what users *do* read is some sort of event log that throws an > attention icon (or spawns a window) on login or on event that doesn't go > away until the user looks through the messages. Yes. > I know we probably don't have something like this right now, but it's > something that can be done, and would be much superior to email for a lot > of users (including myself on a lot of systems). > > One could easily solve the persistent problem in a similar way if a > history of such notifications were kept and could be retrieved by the user > by manually launching the application. > > None of this seems particularly novel (we've written similar things at > Stanford for managed desktop situations and deployed commercial products > that do something similar, not to mention that it's how most anti-virus > updators and now the OS patch updators work), which makes me wonder if > someone is already working on (or has finished) a mechanism of corraling > some desktop notifications into that sort of framework. It at least has the potential to be a good solution, yes. There are a number of notification packages in Debian that I'm having a look through. At the moment I'm looking at notify-osd. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD -- Chris -- Chris Knadle Chris.Knadle@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74
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