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2008-12-30 , 20:53
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Originally Posted by thp View Post
For example, I can imagine having different "severity" levels (rss news might be less urgent than a (personal) reply on twitter) and providing types such as an image/icon, a title and a short description.
Exactly. That is why I tried to define modes. These modes could also be defined as 'roaming' besides 'home' or 'work' and could even change something like the theme. Basically, a mode changes the configuration of the OS to something which the user has defined. You can even think about stuff like e-mail settings.

Maybe have different display styles for different content types. Research a bit, then come up with a nice "new stuff" applet and provide a unified API for it that can then also be used in GNOME on the Linux Desktop.
KDE has something like this, and for GNOME there is an unofficial add-on called Mumbles (OSX has Growl). Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth wants to define a standard for this in the Freedesktop.org framework but beware of the following: notifications require no action. There are events which require an action and events which don't require action. This what I'm referring to does not require action, and events which do require action (e.g. user input) are excluded.
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