Re: A Gnome event manager?

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This ties into an idea that was discussed a while back about a
user-notification system for various events, similar to biff. (some sort
of biff protocol).  It would make sense to develop that as seperate
program/package and have a standard protocol for sending events to the
notifier (with details such as what particular event happened and when).
Then many different programs could use it like the examples you gave, but
instead of having one monster handle-every-scenario event manager, it
would be in components that would be easy to manage.  Sound like what you
had in mind?
	Dave O

On Wed, 26 May 1999, Tuomas J. Lukka wrote:

> 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
> 	
> 
> 
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