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A very useful feature of a modern messaging system is desktop integration, which iMessage (on macOS), whatsapp, Signal, Slack, among others support, so at the v
by zamnos 4y ago
A very useful feature of a modern messaging system is desktop integration, which iMessage (on macOS), whatsapp, Signal, Slack, among others support, so at the very least I'd want a desktop notification system to properly handle those notifications. Oh and also received emails. But that aside, this is Linux - do you not have any cronjobs? Like seriously any? Not even on other servers? Even if not from I'd like notifications from those, as well as other background tasks (eg when a large data set has finished downloading). To be fair, these use cases are largely covered by Chrome notifications, but these are use cases a notification system cam do a better job of covering.
- bee_rider 4y agoFor messaging, I just have my phone nearby. For cronjobs, I haven’t needed to add any. I guess some must come built in in Ubuntu. Generally these are more like completely background maintenance tasks, to the point where I don’t care to know when they complete. I could see the point of a task that is sort of “kick it off and it’ll let me know when it is done.” I actually have some tasks that I stick in LSF that could probably benefit from something like that, but in my case they are short-running enough that I just check back in a couple minutes.