Re: requesting official list of modules and versions for GNOME 2.14

[William Jon McCann <mccann jhu edu>]

Hi Davyd,

Davyd Madeley wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:27:34PM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
>
> > A comment about the "notification spam": the user only gets 4
> > notifications for "low battery", "very low battery" and "critical
> > battery" and one saying "I'm doing the low-power action in 10 seconds"
> > -- and then there are a 2 optional notifications (i.e. that you can turn
> > off in gconf) for things like notification when you remove the
> > ac_adapter, or when the battery reaches 100%.
>
> This is exactly what I mean by notification spam. I hope to get some
> clarification on what is good notification and bad notification that
> is suitable for the HIG shortly.

In my opinion this is possibly the most clear cut and legitimate case 
for using notifications.  I think a message that essentially says that 
your computer will run out of gas in 2 minutes is hardly "notification 
spam".

Jon