From kde-core-devel Thu Sep 24 19:44:35 2009 From: Matthew Woehlke Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:44:35 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Turn Powerdevil suspend notification into a dialog Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=125382155614496 Alex Merry wrote: > On Wednesday 23 September 2009 23:24:43 you wrote: >> David Nolden wrote: >>> 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 :-).) > > The problem with adding too many classifications is that developers don't know > how to classify any given notification. Is Frobbling a Quite Major or Very > Major (or only Moderately Major) notification? > > Maybe making them more semantic would be better. Informational (eg: user came > online), Alert (eg: user is chatting to you), Error (eg: can't connect to the > network), Critical Error (your computer is about to go bang). Those work. I was thinking of something similar, but didn't come up with a suggestion I liked sufficiently to share. And yes, the "levels" should be limited to about five... just so there are more than three :-). -- Matthew Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies. -- Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Plan accordingly.