Re: Two 3.10 feature ideas

[אנטולי קרס נר <tombackton gmail com>]

The first idea sounds good, but I don't think the second one is worth
anyone's effort.

Just a personal opinion, but as a Facebook user in the past, I've seen
how loads of notifications keep you addicted and distracted and don't
let you do the useful things you planned to do.

There may be some use to such notifications, but basically - you would
just be helping Facebook, Twitter and Google+ get more people addicted.
And all three of them are proprietary and have known storied about how
they use people's private data...

So in my opinion, working on these notifications is one of the most
not-important things we can possibly work on. I prefer to fix random
bugs than help Facebook track people and control their lives.

I know Google sponsors Gnome, but it doesn't change the fact I fight for
software freedom, and I don't want to use Facebook or Twitter or Google
mail/docs service. I do use this GMail mailbox, but I know it's bad and
I'm looking for replacements. There's Diaspora, for example.

I know many people here actually work for RedHat, but all those of you
who care about software freedom purely: Do you really want
Facebook/Google/Twitter to take over the desktop? If they do, Gnome will
become just another desktop environment, not any better than Windows.
Freedom and privacy are killer features, ladies and gentlemen. At least
in my humble opinion. Let's not give up on them so easily.

But do go ahead with the Evolution idea :)

- Anatoly Krasner

On ה', 2013-04-11 at 22:09 +0200, Daniel Mustieles García wrote:
> For the first idea, maybe something like this could be useful:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/gnome-gmail-notifier/
>
> I've been using it in both GNOME 2 and GNOME 3 ant id works properly
> with notifications, so it would be a good starter point.
>
> Cheers!
>
> 2013/4/11 Matteo Settenvini <matteo-ml member fsf org>
>         Dear all,
>         
>         unfortunately, I don't know if I will have the manpower in the
>         next six
>         months to contribute actively to GNOME, so I'm just dropping
>         two ideas
>         for features here. I believe they would benefit a good number
>         of users.
>         
>         * Finally have evolution display notifications for new
>         messages while
>         the main UI is not open. There was a proposal in this
>         direction several
>         cycles ago, but I believe it was postponed indefinitely. Has
>         evolution-data-server all the needed pieces? This is not
>         conceptually
>         much different than notifications for new chat messages. Sure,
>         it can be
>         achieved by some another different small program which needs
>         to be
>         configured separately, but it would be nice to have this well
>         integrated
>         with the rest of the GNOME experience.
>         
>         * Add social network notifications. Some of them could be
>         read-only
>         notifications (e.g. for Google+, which does not provide a
>         write API),
>         others could afford to offer an interface similar to the one
>         used for
>         chat (e.g. for Facebook and Twitter) where you can respond.
>         Gwibber
>         attempted to do some of these things, but a solution
>         integrated with
>         g-o-a (which already has the authentication pieces in place) +
>         gnome-shell seem to make much sense.
>         
>         Anyway, thanks for your strenuous work!
>         
>         Cheers,
>         --
>         Matteo Settenvini
>         FSF Associated Member
>         Email : matteo member fsf org
>         
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