Feature changed by: Stefan Behlert (sbehlert) Feature #305307, revision 20 Title: Desktop neutral notification openSUSE-11.2: Rejected by Stefan Behlert (sbehlert) reject date: 2009-09-02 18:49:19 reject reason: no resources. Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Desirable - openSUSE-11.3: Evaluation by product manager + openSUSE-11.3: Rejected by Stefan Behlert (sbehlert) + reject date: 2011-03-15 16:55:55 + reject reason: 11.3 is done. Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Stanislav Brabec (sbrabec) Product Manager: (Novell) Product Manager: (Novell) Project Manager: (Novell) Engineering Manager: (Novell) Partner organization: openSUSE.org 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. #4: Klaas Freitag (kfreitag) (2009-09-02 17:21:13) Please reject for now, but I like the idea of the common desktop initiative. #5: Holger Macht (hmacht) (2010-03-02 14:05:08) I really think this feature isn't up to date anymore. In times of D- Bus, every daemon can send system notifications via D-Bus. There just has to be proper desktop application which catches the event and shows an appropriate message. So I think there's no direct need for having an infrastructure for daemons showing a notification on the desktop, but for the proper applications catching specific events on the desktop. And if those applications are missing, corresponding features should be opened one by one. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305307