15 Oct
2014
15 Oct
'14
2:16 a.m.
On Tue, 2014-10-14 at 15:19 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
- It should be an opt-in service. On first usage the user should explicitly specify that they want the notifications. Might be slick to present this choice via the notification system, but just an ordinary dialog box would probably be fine too.
So the idea would be to have it enabled, then because every notification allows you to turn it off, have the first-run notifier act as the opt-in/out. I'd prefer it that way so people can specify which types they want or just say no thanks to them all without just pressing 'continue' and thus no thanks. (if that makes sense)
- We'll want the ability to categorize feeds so that users can switch them on or off according to their preferences. So for instance, one feed would be just about updates, a second feed brings updates on community events of interest, a third feed is Tips & Tricks, etc.
Sounds good. Didn't want to over think it, but it makes sense to have these for the preferences.
- For update notifications, users will expect that once they acknowledge the message, it should smoothly proceed to download and installation of the new version with no more than 1-2 more button clicks required.
Tricky, we can't do automatic installs (it's a hydra of a thing) but a solid link to a download page is certainly doable.
Martin,