Re: [PATCH] notification hints for weather applet

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 12:38 -0700, Alex Graveley wrote:
> Seems like a simple heuristic could be employed here, to not be overly 
> intrusive and still very useful...
> 
> Define a set of extreme events, such as rain, sleet, snow whatever.  If 
> and only if the weather changes from a non-extreme event to an extreme 
> event, then notify.  Use a time threshold (like say 2 hours) between 
> notifies to avoid annoying the user, and cover the case where 
> rain/no-rain is toggled repeatedly.
> 
> Or you could just play a thunder sound when it starts raining ;-)

My co-workers would get pissed off. The notification area, and your
sound would always be on in "the Islands".

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>