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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Pop-up alert dialogs.
From:       David Golden <david.golden () oceanfree ! net>
Date:       2001-11-21 11:36:27
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On Tuesday 20 November 2001 14:40, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Good point. It would be nice if the messaging component logged the
> alerts, so you could go back to a previous message. "Read previous
> alert" and "Read alert logs" commands perhaps?


So,  at what point do you just start mailing the alerts, and running a biff 
clone.  :-)

Seriously, why reinvent the wheel - the user's local mailbox has been a 
target for system messages since time immemorial.  It'd be nice to just 
nominate a mail folder for copies of critical alerts to go to...  If you just
mailed copies of all alerts with a subject line "KDE CRITICAL ALERT LOG", 
then users could even filter it into a subdirectory of their local mail.

These days, most home-desktop-user people have a separate POP or IMAP server 
for Internet-mail, and many users aren't even aware that there is a local 
mail facility between different users and the system on the local box.

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