On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 05:11:35PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 29 mai 2013 à 16:31 +0200, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino a > écrit : > > Take for example, smartmoontools [1]. Currently, if an end-user > > installs smartmoontools and a hard-disk fails (i.e. smartd detects a > > problem with one HD) he will *not* see any notification: the failure > > is sent through local e-mail. > > He will see a notification on his desktop. Clear, understandable and > translated in his configured language: > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-disk-utility/tree/src/notify/gdusdmonitor.c > (The code is different but already here in squeeze and wheezy.)
What you propose requires: * adding desktop environment specific code to every facility that may need to send notifications * adding such notifications to every other desktop environment * coming up with a way to send such notifications remotely All of that is already solved by e-mail. > I don’t see why he would need to see it again in a cryptic English > e-mail. Messages can be translated, you know. > You are really looking for a solution to a nonexistent problem. I wouldn't call important system messages not getting delivered a nonexistant problem -- this tends to end up with serious data loss. And the solution exists for > 30 years, there's no point in NIH alternatives. -- ᛊᚨᚾᛁᛏᚣ᛫ᛁᛊ᛫ᚠᛟᚱ᛫ᚦᛖ᛫ᚹᛖᚨᚲ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130529190659.gb32...@angband.pl
