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

["Mik Kersten" <beatmik@xxxxxxx>]

Seems like this kind of feature request/discussion would best be discussed
on a bug report?  Which makes me wonder whether it would make sense for us
to create a ui-best-practices-inbox@xxxxxxxxxxx email address that such UI
discussion items could be assigned to or CC'd on?  That would make it easier
for us to watch them and chime in if appropriate.

Mik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ui-best-practices-working-group-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ui-
> best-practices-working-group-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eugene
> Kuleshov
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:02 AM
> To: User Interface Architecture Working Group
> Subject: Re: [ui-best-practices-working-group] Todays presentation
> 
> 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)
> >
> > http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Platform_UI/33_Features
> >
> > Tod
> 
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