user notifications
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 12:17 am
Hi
With the recent discussions of the lack of notifications for Linux users about new versions I'm wondering if we should look at an IDE based relatively unobtrusive notification system. I've just invented a reason for wanting this for lcVCS because it's rapidly becoming a project delivery system which I think will rival revOnline but I'm sure there are lots of places it could be used... maybe replacing modal dialogs at the end of standalone building etc...
Anyway, do people have thoughts on this? I think a way to specify the icon, title, message and click callback would be good... I guess a way to force stickiness until the user interacts with it might be desirable for some situations but I can't stand it when the OS X update notifications do that...
One thing that occurs to me is it would be quite feasible to implement this as a plugin we just dispatch messages to and then throw it at the IDE team with some suggested places they could use it and they either catch it or we just leave it as a separate plugin we can all use. Perhaps the plugin takes advantage of OS based notifications if it can... not sure.
Cheers
Monte
With the recent discussions of the lack of notifications for Linux users about new versions I'm wondering if we should look at an IDE based relatively unobtrusive notification system. I've just invented a reason for wanting this for lcVCS because it's rapidly becoming a project delivery system which I think will rival revOnline but I'm sure there are lots of places it could be used... maybe replacing modal dialogs at the end of standalone building etc...
Anyway, do people have thoughts on this? I think a way to specify the icon, title, message and click callback would be good... I guess a way to force stickiness until the user interacts with it might be desirable for some situations but I can't stand it when the OS X update notifications do that...
One thing that occurs to me is it would be quite feasible to implement this as a plugin we just dispatch messages to and then throw it at the IDE team with some suggested places they could use it and they either catch it or we just leave it as a separate plugin we can all use. Perhaps the plugin takes advantage of OS based notifications if it can... not sure.
Cheers
Monte