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


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Schaefer" <dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "User Interface Architecture Working Group" <ui-best-practices-working-group@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, 4 October, 2016 5:28:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [ui-best-practices-working-group] Notifications
> 
> 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.

That's the biggest issue of Eclipse IDE IMHO.

> 
> 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
> >--
> >Torkild Ulvøy Resheim
> >Consultant / Eclipse Committer / Senior Software Developer
> >Itema AS - http://itema.no
> >
> >> 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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