On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 17:46, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 20:56, Martin Abente <mabe...@paraguayeduca.org> >> wrote: >>> We really really really ... need a general notification system. :D >> >> You may not believe it, but the shell has an implementation of >> http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/ . >> >> We need more activities to use it and also improve the implementation. > > Is there a good example somewhere we can highlight for activity developers?
I added support for it to XOIrc but I'm not sure if I managed to have that patch accepted back then. Regards, Tomeu > regards. > > -walter > >> >> Regards, >> >> Tomeu >> >>> On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:39 -0400, Frederick Grose wrote: >>>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Anish Mangal >>>> <anishmangal2...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> I was planning on fixing sl#1842 [1] but I'm not sure what >>>> should be >>>> the correct method of alerting users incase a write error does >>>> occur. >>>> Should I popup a dialog box, or use alerts like the one used >>>> in chat, >>>> sugar-commander? Suggestions welcome. >>>> >>>> [1] http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1842, >>>> >>>> >>>> An alert like a chat or Activity sharing invitation would be nice, but >>>> one with a more visible signal is needed. >>>> >>>> >>>> I imagine an alert icon that rises out of the Frame, enlarges and >>>> glows for a few moments, then settles back to the Frame, but then >>>> shows a glowing edge or corona and bumps up slightly every 15 or 30 >>>> seconds in case the learner was focused on another Activity at the >>>> time the alert was first displayed (or just decided to postpone >>>> attention to the alert and then forgot about the pending need for >>>> attention). >>>> >>>> >>>> Of course, the icon should be clickable and reveal a useful palette of >>>> actions at any point in its lifetime. >>>> >>>> >>>> New alerts with behavior like the above would be welcome for >>>> invitations as well as errors. >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks! --Fred >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>>> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel