Re: [ui-best-practices-working-group] Notifications

[Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So many times we¹ve implemented features that should have been in the
platform but did so in higher level projects that not everyone installs.
We really need to figure why and out how to fix that.

Doug.

On 2016-10-04, 9:21 AM,
"ui-best-practices-working-group-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Torkild
U. Resheim" <ui-best-practices-working-group-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf
of torkildr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>You bring up an important point Andreas.
>
>Mylyn Notifications was designed with just this kind of use case in mind.
>I wrote a short story on how to use this a few years ago[1]. Also it
>already has an UI for configuring how the notifications should work. So
>one can decide which category of notifications goes where or even hide
>them if the defaults are not suitable.
>
>I think it would be wise to build on what we already have in this case.
>
>[1] https://resheim.net/2011/04/using-mylyn-notifications.html
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>> 4. okt. 2016 kl. 13.31 skrev Andreas Sewe <andreas.sewe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> 
>> Doug Schaefer wrote:
>>> BTW, I really like the idea of using OS notifications. Being a Chrome
>>> user, I¹m getting used to seeing them, for example when I¹m tweeted at
>>> or something happens in Facebook that may interest me.
>> 
>> Mylyn Notifications has the concept of "Sinks". ATM, one of them is
>> "Desktop Popup". I can very well imagine another being "OS
>>Notification".
>> 
>> This has the advantage that we don't need to have OS-specific code in
>> place for all supported OSes at once (assuming that every supported OS
>> even has a decent Notifications API); there would always be the
>> "fallback" sink (Desktop Popup).
>> 
>> Just my two cents,
>> 
>> Andreas
>> 
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