Re: [Dpp-devel] [Dpp-commit] [ dpp-Bugs-2832598 ] Invitation User Interface should blink

[Michael J. <ju...@ze...>]

Hi,

I already spend some time considering those issues while treating the 
3-way-handshake while inviting and considering to remove this nasty 
balloon messages appearing somewhere. SWT (also Java 1.6 - but as we 
depend on 1.5...)) offers a possibility to use a System tray icon that 
could change on error or where messages could pop up like in other IMs 
(it should be configurable by the options).
I also thought about blinking and balloon messages on the taskbar but 
didn't find a solution (however, I only searched few hours).

Other possibilities:
- add messages to a global chat window. The chat view should open 
automatically. In my opinion accepted invitations with current time etc. 
should be written to the chat window anyway!
- I thought about checking whether the eclipse window is active and if 
not to pop up a message dialog (=> blinking). To this dialog further 
messages could be added to avoid a dialog storm

What do other think about using System tray and a chat window for messages?
Regards
Michael


On 05.05.2010 15:11, SourceForge.net wrote:
> Bugs item #2832598, was opened at 2009-08-05 12:31
> Message generated for change (Comment added) made by nobody
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> Category: Synchronisation / Invitation
> Group: 9.8.21
> Status: Open
> Resolution: Accepted
> Priority: 7
> Private: No
> Submitted By: Christopher Oezbek (coezbek)
> Assigned to: mvh (mvhoffen)
> Summary: Invitation User Interface should blink
>
> Initial Comment:
> Since the invitation process is often sluggish, users often do other things during the invitation is running in the background. We should make the user interface blink (we already do when a new invitation arrives) in the following cases:
>
>    * An Invitation fails (Host and client)
>    * An Invitation finishes (client)
>    * All Invitations are finished (host)
>    * User Input is required (Client)
>
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>
> Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
> Date: 2010-05-05 13:11
>
> Message:
> There is probably no platform independent solution to this: on win there is
> task bar on mac there ain't. org.eclipse.jface.window.Window does not
> supply any method for realizing this...
> The behavior at the moment is somewhat different to what was stated in the
> initial bug anyway:
> Saros does nothing when an invitation was successful or failed - the
> window is not brought to the top nor does it blink.
> The scenario "User input is required" is too vague. when exactly? what
> should be done? blinking alone does not seem to be possible and letting the
> current eclipse window become focused does not seem right to me (not very
> user friendly)...
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Comment By: Tas Sóti (sotitas)
> Date: 2009-10-15 19:42
>
> Message:
> The user interface blinks... and not only blinks, but the Eclipse window
> becomes focus as well, not only in OSX, but in Windows as well (I have not
> found any better solution). This can be very annoying!
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Comment By: Tas Sóti (sotitas)
> Date: 2009-08-21 13:56
>
> Message:
> OXS doesn't blink but the window becomes focus. This can be really
> annoying. Is there a better solution?
>
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