[Ayatana] Notification in fullscreen apps

2009-07-06 Thread Praveen
I recently read the karmic-notify-osd proposal and it has a section for what is to done when applications are fullscreen, it currently states that non-critical bubbles must be suppressed. Are notifications from pidgin/empathy considered critical or non-critical? I think that the right way of

Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login

2009-07-06 Thread Paulo J. S. Silva
Em Sáb, 2009-07-04 às 10:15 +0200, Steve Dodier escreveu: I don't think (b) is a good idea for the following reasons : * When the user shuts the PC down, he doesn't expect to give it attention anymore. An update can fail or be interrupted for some reasons (package missing on a server,

Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login

2009-07-06 Thread Alan Pope
2009/7/4 Steve Dodier sidnio...@gmail.com:  * What about laptops ? Sometimes you shutdown your laptop because you're about to move. Do you want, in this case, to have to wait for the upgrade to perform ? I know a few people who initiate the shutdown process, and as they are in a hurry will

Re: [Ayatana] Notification in fullscreen apps

2009-07-06 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:15:33 +0530 Praveen tgpravee...@gmail.com wrote: I recently read the karmic-notify-osd proposal and it has a section for what is to done when applications are fullscreen, it currently states that non-critical bubbles must be suppressed. Are notifications from

Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login

2009-07-06 Thread Alex Launi
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote: Updates-on-login are interesting, but I think fatally flawed because of the common requirement to reboot after updates. This is actually the case where update on login works best. Any other time rebooting is totally

Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login

2009-07-06 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On sab, 2009-07-04 at 15:31 -0300, Paulo J. S. Silva wrote: That is a good point. However, the likelihood of a failure in a security update that doesn't allow for a clean shutdown is very low (it never happened to me and I use Linux since 1994). I know that perhaps it is overkill to talk

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Notification in fullscreen apps

2009-07-06 Thread Praveen
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Vincenzo Ciancia cian...@di.unipi.itwrote: On lun, 2009-07-06 at 22:33 +0530, Praveen wrote: I recently read the karmic-notify-osd proposal and it has a section for what is to done when applications are fullscreen, it currently states that

Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login

2009-07-06 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Alex Launi wrote: On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com mailto:m...@ubuntu.com wrote: Updates-on-login are interesting, but I think fatally flawed because of the common requirement to reboot after updates. This is actually the case where update on login

Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login

2009-07-06 Thread Joshua Blount
On 07/06/2009 08:21 PM, David Siegel wrote: Mark Shuttleworth wrote: Alex Launi wrote: On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com mailto:m...@ubuntu.com wrote: Updates-on-login are interesting, but I think fatally flawed because of the common requirement to

Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login

2009-07-06 Thread Dylan McCall
On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 10:15 +0200, Steve Dodier wrote: I don't think (b) is a good idea for the following reasons : * When the user shuts the PC down, he doesn't expect to give it attention anymore. An update can fail or be interrupted for some reasons (package missing on a server, internet

Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login

2009-07-06 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:46:19 -0400 Joshua Blount jos...@canonical.com wrote: On 07/06/2009 08:21 PM, David Siegel wrote: Mark Shuttleworth wrote: Alex Launi wrote: On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com mailto:m...@ubuntu.com wrote: Updates-on-login are