[Bug 348377] Re: service-discovery-applet displays too many notifications

[David Barth]

Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> This came from Bug 333517, where I had asked commented about the
> absolutely incessant and irritating problem where with service-
> discovery-applet, the notice window is almost CONSTANTLY showing up to
> indicate what services appear and disappear? I don't so much mind the
> notifications as I do that they are in a highly crucial part of the
> screen, rather than out of the way.
>
> I am attending a conference and, using it as an example, notify-osd has
> already been active for the past hour quite literally non-stop. Rather
> annoying when it is sitting over the titlebar and tab area of browsers
> and apps, despite the fact that it will fade when mouse hovers. So much
> for being unobtrusive.
>
> Mind you, I'm not sure that the service-discovery-applet is at fault.
> What else should it do, other than provide filters, when services come
> and go?
>   
You said it all:
 * provide filters
 * buffer some events, so that instead of telling you 100 times that a 
new service is available, it would tell you that 100 similar services 
are available
 * detect harder when services are unstable (toggling between available 
/ unavailable)

There is a similar scalability issue with printers: on a large 
enterprise network, you may be spammed every morning by notifications 
from new available printers.

Matthew: thought?

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