"Cantr Notifier"

[kabl00ey]

Would it be possible to have an application, much like Gmail Notifier (http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/ ... omo=gdl-en) that alerts you when you've got new activity for a char? I know I check my chars about 200 million times an hour (OCD ), and it'd be handy for a message to just pop up and tell me there's activity.

Gmail Notifier description: "The Gmail Notifier is an application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages. It displays an icon in your system tray to let you know if you have unread Gmail messages, and shows you their subjects, senders and snippets, all without your having to open a web browser."

[Jos Elkink]

Yeah, I've been thinking about that too. What would people think of something like that?

And would it suffice to have a notification within 5 minutes, or should it be immediate for it to become useful?

[Dee]

Hmm.. Maybe people should set them according to how often they want the notification (Immediate - Every 5 minutes - Every 10 minutes)

[formerly known as hf]

I like the e-mail idea, but this sounds even better

A little 'Cantr notification' program that can run seperately from any browser or anything

It'd run on Linux right?

[kabl00ey]

It'd run on Linux right?

Well, *obviously*.

I guess it depends on whoever can develop it. I just find the Gmail thing fantastic because I only check my mail when, well, I know there's something there.

[nitefyre]

At this stage, I think the FDA will require a health warning disclaimer on the bottom of all the pages (in the US).

[Savanik]

Spam, spam, spam, spam... Oh, sorry, was checking my email. All I get these days is spam.

On-topic: The only drawback I see is the once-a-day false positive you'll get from eating however many grams of food. I consider that message 'noise' because there's not really much response needed. As opposed to the quite important message, 'You ate all of your X' or starving to death.

Sav

[AngelSpice]

I like it, but I wonder if it would penalize those who could only log in once a day. It might decrease server traffic, though. *shrugs* I guess you could say I'm ambivalent about it.

[Jos Elkink]

Actually, I'm not sure how to program a gmail-like one ... I could find out, but it would almost certainly not work on Linux ... What about a Java application? I envision something like an instant-messenger like screen, where the events are just visible and keep going, and where you have at the bottom your status bars of your char (health etc.), while you cannot actually use the interface for any actions (just observing). The latter could be added later, probably. How about that?

And yeah, I think this is way better than slap -> email

[formerly known as hf]

a simple java application listing character events would be good...

Wouldn't it be easier to make it stand-alone and simple, rather than toolbar/system tray incorporated like the gmail thing? And a stand-alone Java applet should work on Linux

[Jos Elkink]

Wouldn't it be easier to make it stand-alone and simple, rather than toolbar/system tray incorporated like the gmail thing? And a stand-alone Java applet should work on Linux

That's what I'm saying ....

[kabl00ey]

What's interesting about the slap-thing, is that I never saw that, so it's curious how they were both suggested at almost the same time

Jos: Your solutions sounds a little like Semagic, a client I used for LiveJournal editing. Instead of going through the rigmarole of logging into the website, and doing everything through slow, painful html pages, I'd do everything but view online material through the small, speedy client and it would do all the interacting with the website.

I'm not sure which I prefer. My idea was originally for a notifier, but perhaps a more interactive and informative client could be useful also. Definitely in the long-run at least - in a way, I see Cantr being run on a client in the future, and less so just straight on the web.

[PRUT]

Good Idea but it must work also in Firefox or Opera browsers

[Sho]

If I read the suggestions correctly, it should be browser-independent.

[Sunni Daez]

I like the notifier idea....Like I said before..I check Cantr mor than my e-mail so e-mails would be useless to me