Re: Notification types

I am not really understanding the use cases.  what were you thinking the named constants would be?

Doug

On Oct 26, 2010, at 5:47 AM, James Graham wrote:

> Has the concept of notification types/priorities been discussed? It seems to be a common feature in existing notification APIs to have either a priority system or a category system or both. This has a number of benefits for the user; for example they can set a filter on the notification priority at some level on a system-wide basis or the display can format the priority as appropriate for the notification type.
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> The obvious way to expose this sort of thing in the API would be a set of named constants for different types and an extra, optional, argument to the notification constructor (or factory function) for the type constant.
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