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

["Torkild U. Resheim" <torkildr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, this particular feature bubbled up from Mylyn Builds. I believe Platform is more approachable now than it was then. So maybe we should try to move Mylyn Notifications to Platform?

Torkild

> 4. okt. 2016 kl. 16.28 skrev 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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