[ge-talk] user event logging and notification sounds

[Kevin Field]

Hi everyone.

Just had an idea, hope it's not a dupe.  The basic thing would be that any app that wants to notify the user when something happens via a sound (or keyboard lights blinking, popups, or even e-mail...pretty much anything not requested by the user at the very time it occurs--certain popups do not fit this criterion, note) could use a new API whereby it posts an event to a user event log with a specified event type/title.  (I know we talked about a unified user event log at one point, but the following part is new.)  Then the Sounds preflet (which would be expanded to a general Notifications preflet) could assign any notification action (playing a certain sound, blinking lights, popping up an alert, running a script, creating and/or e-mailing someone a logfile) to any event type.

The goal of all this is so that I can easily turn off the MSN sound while I'm playing music and chatting with people and can easily see that someone in the window next to the one I'm typing in has sent another message.  If this were the case I'd have e-mail give me a sound too normally.  Then I could have a SpicyKey to disable note sounds altogether and another to easily re-enable them when I leave the computer for a bit.

Comments welcome.  :)

Kev