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Re: [ecf-dev] [Salvo] "Provide a popup notification when a reply is received" functionality

> 
> In any event, if this meets the newsreader notification needs, it should 
> make things easier to reuse it from ECF, rather than introduce a new 
> external dependency.

Would this not add more dependencies instead of less? Do you assume we already have the dependency that contains Remys notifier?

Regards,

Wim



> 
> Scott
> 
> On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 02:01:00PM +0530, Isuru Udana wrote:
>> Hi Wim, Harshana,
>> 
>> I did some research to find how to display a notification in eclipse.
>> 
>> According to my research, for displaying a popup desktop notification, still
>> there is no proper API in the platform UI.
>> 
>> But there is an excellent notification mechanism in the mylyn [1],[2].
>> There were discussions on moving that mylyns' popup notification API to
>> platform UI [3].
>> But seems like it is not completed yet.
>> 
>> So to reuse the mylyn notification mechanism we have to
>> add org.eclipse.mylyn.commons.ui bundle as a dependency.
>> In the discussion [3] Steffen Pingel (from mylyn) has encouraged other
>> projects to reuse their notification API in that way.
>> 
>> I tested a simple plugin to display notifications
>> using org.eclipse.mylyn.commons.ui bundle.
>> 
>> Shall we reuse mylyn notification API or shall we look for some other
>> method.
>> Please express your view on this.
>> 
>> [1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylyn/Integrator_Reference#Commons_UI
>> 
>> [2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=177974
>> 
>> <http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylyn/Integrator_Reference#Commons_UI>
>> [3] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=229823
>> 
>> -- 
>> *Regards,*
>> *
>> Isuru Udana
>> *
>> *
>> 
>> *
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>> Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
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>> *
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