Re: [ui-best-practices-working-group] Todays presentation

[Eugene Kuleshov <eu@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tod,

 I am sorry to jump in into this discussion. This is very interesting 
summary and one thing caught my attention.

 I am referring to SWT System Tray feature. While it is cool tiny thing 
on its own it is hard to use it to implement efficient user interaction 
and I think this area should be explored further, so Platform can 
deliver a better story for notifications and progress indication. Here 
are few things that already supported by Platform:

-- Problems view (popular in IDE users)
-- Error view (not everyone know about it)
-- Progress trim bar (many plugins don't implement progress notification 
properly)
-- Progress view (not everyone know about it and many plugins don't 
implement progress notification properly)
-- Some plugins implements custom notification popups (those practically 
don't scale)

 So, I think all those things should be integrated within a better user 
story.

 One possibility could be to introduce new trim bar that would show 
number of unread errors/processes/notifications and would allow to jump 
into particular view to see more details. I.e. few buttons for each 
event type with number next to it. Those buttons could also show summary 
in the mouse tooltip, so it will be easy to see if there is anything 
important.

 What everyone think about this?

 regards,
 Eugene


Tod Creasey wrote:
> Can be previewed on the wiki (liked off of our page)
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> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Platform_UI/33_Features
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> Tod