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[Seif Lotfy <seif@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am not sure if this is the right place here but after the sucessful
rewrite of the zeitgeist engine i was thinking of pushing *user selected*
"notifications (as in events) from also selected dataproviders" to libnotify
those dataproviders start from twitter and already working on facebook and
gmail. Its easy su subscribe to events from all kind of webapps and present
them over a standart interface....
Was this right here? Having a layer in between to filter spam contents and
determine priorities!
Cheers
Seif

2009/6/10 Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>

>  Steve Dodier wrote:
>
> What would be the practical use of it using libnotify when we're
> actually trying to get notifications to be used for system-to-user
> notifications and indicator-applet used for chat/im-apps-to-user
> communication ? Wouldn't it be even better to try to make this work
> with indicator-applet ?
>
>
>  I was wondering about that too!
>
> A big part of our job in putting together the messaging indicator is
> figuring out how to "defend the usability" of something that can be messed
> up by a rogue app. For example, if an app spams the messaging indicator, it
> spoils it for all the other apps. I would be nervous that creating a
> mechanism for web sites to put entries in that indicator could cause
> problems, but it's such an interesting idea that I think it's worth
> considering in more detail.
>
> The variety of notification API's suggests that some will have the same
> need for a "callback". Not all of those fit into the messaging story, but
> it's still worth considering.
>
> We'll certainly have apps in the desktop which monitor web feeds, for
> example, and they will definitely use both notifications and the messaging
> menu. Gwibber, for example, is a desktop app which monitors a web
> infrastructure (twitter, identi.ca) and can use the notifications (and
> soon messaging menu).
>
> Mark
>
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