{"id":948,"date":"2015-01-29T21:41:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T10:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=948"},"modified":"2015-01-29T21:41:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T10:41:19","slug":"notification-to-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"Notification to nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most operation systems have notification services that attempt to notify, if not inform, the user when a significant even has occurred. Such as? Hmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Battery is low<\/li>\n<li>Your mother called<\/li>\n<li>You have a system update available<\/li>\n<li>You have a reminder set to check the eggs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unfortunately there are some notifications which are a little less useful that others. Take this one that Kubuntu spits out every now and then. It has been niggling at me for some time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-949\" style=\"width: 374px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-949\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/notification_to_nowhere.jpg\" alt=\"Kubuntu's anti-notification notification\" width=\"374\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/notification_to_nowhere.jpg 374w, https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/notification_to_nowhere-300x95.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kubuntu&#8217;s anti-notification notification<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;An application has crashed on your system (now or in the past)&#8221;. In other news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why?<\/li>\n<li>What?<\/li>\n<li>Which?<\/li>\n<li>Who?<\/li>\n<li>When?<\/li>\n<li>Where?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It even says it is a &#8220;Helper&#8221;. Helping what? The user to become more confused?<\/p>\n<p>A notification system should do something, like notify&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most operation systems have notification services that attempt to notify, if not inform, the user when a significant even has occurred. Such as? Hmm&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,27],"tags":[138,141,137,139,140],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde","category-kubuntu","category-open-source","tag-desktop-linux","tag-kde-2","tag-kubuntu-2","tag-notifications","tag-plasma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}