[ecf-dev] notification popups and bug 177974

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

I'm working over the weekend on some on enhancing docshare user 
interface...specifically to provide some better/less disruptive 
notification dialogs. 

Ideally, I would use the notification dialog work associated with bug 
177974:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=177974

but this isn't ready yet and I don't want to wait.  I would rather just 
remove our code when this notification work is completed and part of 
jface (I expect this is where it will be located but perhaps it is 
targeted for somewhere else).

In any event, the org.eclipse.ecf.presence.ui is the only current 
location that uses PopupDialog (MessageNotificationPopup) as far as I 
know, and I was thinking that I would do something similar to, but not 
exactly the same, as that work.

Questions:

1) What are the dependencies...for org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.PopupDialog 
and others? 
2) Would it make sense to move MessageNotificationPopup (and any new 
classes I create) to org.eclipse.ecf.ui?  Perhaps in a new package 
org.eclipse.ecf.ui.notification?...or would the dependencies then make 
org.eclipse.ecf.ui unusable outside of Eclipse? (i.e. for RCP apps, etc?). 
3) Anything else that should be considered?

Thanks,

Scott