I think we should do a few things here: 1. Introduce a privileged API for controlling the LED. 2. Let the system app use that API in order to blink the LED whenever a notification is rendered. 3. Use the API to indicate battery status (low battery, very low battery, charging) 4. Possibly enable apps to specify an LED pattern when creating notifications.
I'm honestly not fully understanding the use case of using the LED when a notification is rendered. At least given that we currently always turn on the screen whenever a notification is created. Is using the LED useful even when we display the notification on screen? However, Robert is working on the ability for apps to opt out having the screen come on. Then I can more see the use for blinking the LED to indicate a notification. Or is the idea to turn on the LED to indicate pending notifications? And leave it on (or leave it blinking) until the user interacts with the device? So that if you come back to a device that you were away from you can see if you missed any notifications when you were away? / Jonas On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Michael Henretty <mhenre...@mozilla.com> wrote: > For the Notification API part, there has been a bunch of recent discussion > about being able to specify device level behaviors using the API. If you are > interesting in seeing the LED part standardized, now would be a great time to > raise your voice: > > http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2014-August/297421.html > > Also, we are currently working on version 1 of this which includes being able > to specify things like waking the screen, sound, and vibration pattern using > the API: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=912645 > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alexandre Lissy" <ali...@mozilla.com> > To: dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org > Sent: Saturday, September 6, 2014 7:33:03 AM > Subject: Re: [b2g] LED API? > > Le 06/09/2014 16:16, Jan Jongboom a écrit : >> I wanted this badly yesterday tbh. I think a proper way to do this is to >> combine it with notification API. System would be responsible for LED >> handling, but apps can specify their wanted behavior through notification. > > That could be a good idea, but this needs: > - API so that Gecko can drive the LEDs > - extension to the notification API > >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-b2g mailing list >> dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g >> > > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
