Feature changed by: Michael Löffler (michl19) Feature #305307, revision 7 Title: Desktop neutral notification - openSUSE-11.2: New + openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Stanislav Brabec (sbrabec) Description: Up to 11.0, powersave-notify provided desktop neutral notification. Since 11.1, there is no way, how daemons can notify desktop users about fatal issues. Examples: smartd needs to notify about dying disc nut and apcupsd need to notify about failing power (hal power management cannot be used yet, as many UPS devices are not auto- detectable, hal static-config-based prober does not exist yet, nut-hal supports ony HID devices and apcupsd has no hal connector at all). References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230267 Discussion: #1: Holger Macht (hmacht) (2008-09-17 17:27:33) This should be added to a bakend like the HAL database so that desktop applets can catch the information and show them to the user. We already have something like this for "defective batteries" gnome-power-managar shows to the user. #2: Stanislav Brabec (sbrabec) (2008-12-16 11:48:45) Virtual console may be another way to implement it: http://gxconsole.sourceforge.net/ But such simple implementation does not allow i18n. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305307