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Re: [ide-dev] Project News Notifications in Eclipse?

> What about offering an extendable "Tip of the Day"

Whenever an app shows me this, it annoys me and I disable it immediately. But of course that's just my personal taste.

Dani



From:        Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To:        Discussions about the IDE <ide-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:        12.02.2015 11:31
Subject:        Re: [ide-dev] Project News Notifications in Eclipse?
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What about offering an extendable "Tip of the Day" (similar to other IDE's) to which plug-ins can contribute content? The default "Tip of the Day" could fetch its content from the foundation.

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Marcel Bruch <marcel.bruch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Greetings Eclipse Developer Community,


I’m currently thinking about a mechanism to let Eclipse users know about “security related or project news”. For instance, the GIT security was hard to push out to people because not many were aware of it. I can also imagine that projects would be interested to send notifications about new releases or other information to its users (and only its users).

So far, only the marketplace client offers a news section that tries to accomplish something similar.
How about an extension point where plugins can register a news feed url and a background job that checks these urls every, say, 7 days to fetch updates. If an update is found, we could show a tray icon that shows that there are news available and on-click send devs to the web page.

It doesn’t have to be a tray icon. But I’d like the idea to let user know about news and, especially, security related news.

Any thoughts?

Marcel

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