[ecf-dev] [Salvo] "Provide a popup notification when a reply is received

[Isuru Udana <isudana@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wim, Harshana,

I did some research to find how to display a notification in eclipse.

According to my research, for displaying a popup desktop notification, still there is no proper API in the platform UI.

But there is an excellent notification mechanism in the mylyn [1],[2]. 

There were discussions on moving that mylyns' popup notification API to platform UI [3]. 

But seems like it is not completed yet.

So to reuse the mylyn notification mechanism we have to add org.eclipse.mylyn.commons.ui bundle as a dependency. 

In the discussion [3] Steffen Pingel (from mylyn) has encouraged other projects to reuse their notification API in that way.

I tested a simple plugin to display notifications using org.eclipse.mylyn.commons.ui bundle.

Shall we reuse mylyn notification API or shall we look for some other method.

Please express your view on this. 

[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylyn/Integrator_Reference#Commons_UI

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

[3] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=229823

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Regards,

Isuru Udana

Undergraduate

Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
University of Moratuwa.

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