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by dllthomas 4188 days ago
Another thing I'd like to see is a notification daemon with two features missing from all the existing notification daemons I've played with:

1) Ability to pull up a history of notifications

If I go away from my computer for a bit, I'd like to quickly review what happened while I was gone. Also, sometimes I want to reference something that appeared in a notification.

2) Batching of notifications by priority

When I'm trying to get work done, I don't want to be bugged every time anything happens. I'd like to be able to say, "low priority stuff, don't inform me more often than every two hours; middling, every half hour; high priority stuff send through right away". Ideally, some sort of pattern matching to adjust priorities.

This could take the form of a new notification daemon (would need dbus and some UI library) or a patch to an existing one.