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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] Turn Powerdevil suspend notification into a dialog
From:       Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2009-09-23 22:24:43
Message-ID: h9e77c$d1a$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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David Nolden wrote:
> Those categories are completely disconnected from the 'semantic'. Each of 
> those categories may have important disturbing notifications a la "shutting 
> down, you have 10 seconds to react", as well as completely boring spam 
> notifications a la "switched from WLAN cell 0xaabbcc into 0xb0r1ng".

That isn't valid hexadecimal :-).

(Couldn't resist... /me runs and hides now...)

> Better would be priorities like: Minor, Major, Critical, where plasma should 
> make sure that 'Critical' notifications are _always_ noticed be the user, in 
> whatever ways, and the others could be configurable. Major could be something 
> like "Got message from ..." in kopete, and minor could be something like 
> "Person ... went online".

I would think more categories than that. I'd expect a network error to 
be higher importance than an incoming message, yet it isn't critical. 
(I'd like to reserve 'critical' for things that really are, e.g. system 
is about to turn off :-).)

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Matthew
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