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

["Daniel Megert" <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

What are dependencies of the Mylyn Notifications
framework? Does it work on top of the Eclipse SDK, or are additional things
required?

Dani



From:      
 "Torkild U. Resheim"
<torkildr@xxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 User Interface Architecture
Working Group <ui-best-practices-working-group@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:      
 06.10.2016 10:18
Subject:    
   Re: [ui-best-practices-working-group]
Notifications
Sent by:    
   ui-best-practices-working-group-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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It appears to me that not everyone understands how
the Mylyn Notifications API works and how it relates to native, a.k.a.
SWT notifications. These two are not exclusive but complimentary.

A Mylyn Notifications «sink» or «notifier» is what presents a notification,
sometimes it is capable of receiving user input. Currently the following
notifier types are implemented:

* Builds view – the original use case
* Desktop popup – in bottom right corner
* Desktop popup (Errors)

A message has a category, and for each message category the user can configure
zero or more notifiers. The developer should implement sensible defaults.

I’d like to move Mylyn Notifications to Platform and add a new notifier
which would be the "SWT notifications". This bridge to the native
notification API should probably be implemented in SWT. That would make
good sense. But I think that the Eclipse code using this bridge should
be doing it through the Mylyn Notifications API. That way the user will
have control over how notifications of certain categories are handled and
we don’t have to reinvent the wheel once again.

Torkild

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