A Gnome event manager?

["Tuomas J. Lukka" <lukka fas harvard edu>]

Here's one idea: a gnome event manager.
What it would deal with is checking whether something has happened
and notifying the user in various ways at various points, for example:

	you can't get to a web site you wanted to see - it is down.
	Just make a note to the gnome event manager: please tell
	me immediately once this website is up, check it every 5 minutes
	or so whenever I'm logged on.

Or: 

	you are waiting to talk to a person you know at the computer lab.
	No problem: just tell the event manager to tell you when he logs
	on any computer from the console

Or:

	You're expecting an important email from a certain person but don't
	want to check - no problem: tell the event manager to inform you
	once that email has arrived

Or:

	you have a disk quota / a partition that can fill up - ask the
	event manager to notify you

There are many possible uses and the types of events would probably
best be something like bonobo objects published by various programs 
on the machine. But being able to say at a certain center what
you want to be reminded of (and turning off all interruptions) would
be nice.

	Tuomas