RE: Notification types

On Fri, Oct 29 at 2:38 AM John Gregg wrote:

>If priority is part of the notification construction API, we would be relying on each application to correctly declare its own priority.  It is desirable that a "something is on fire" >notification would get priority to "new email", and maybe I'm being cynical, but won't all applications eventually set the priority to maximum to avoid being filtered out?

This is indeed the case if you only have a source declared priority system to use for filtering.

>A system which gives users control over the priorities of various notification sources seems better -- perhaps it could be incorporated into the permissions interface?

A pre-defined, but extensible set of categories would be even more useful. That would let the user deal with all the "new mail" notifications as a group instead of having to set the priority of each of them separately, if he so wishes.

Veikko

Received on Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:48:58 UTC