[ge-talk] [haiku-development] Re: Notification Server?

[Axel Dörfler]

"Niels Reedijk" <niels.reedijk at gmail.com> wrote:
> When as a user I want to be notified, or interrupted, by things, I
> want to be able to explicitly ask programs to do that to me. Now
> imagine we end up having an advanced notifier system, complete with
> severities, priorities and the most ingenious customizable but easy 
> to
> use filter dialog, we are taking the responsibility of communication
> away from the program developers. We are basically saying: use this
> system to communicate with your user. My fear is that this will be
> taken up as a carte blanche by any developers to stop doing their
> proper job and think about the communications paths, and rather
> bombard the user with messages because he can filter them out anyway
> (which would mean losing important ones).

As you mentioned, developers need to be educated to use any system 
service properly - it's the same with modal windows, etc.
Being the most active documentation writer to date, you probably have 
some means to do so :-)

> Now at the moment I´m open to the idea that popups aren´t the worst

BTW since you are writing documention: you're using the wrong 
apostrophe; it's "'", not "´", a.k.a. the acute accent. I don't care 
for eMails, but at least our written documentation should not suffer 
from it :-)

Bye,
   Axel.