Different users will have different opinions on this. Users frequently get annoyed when apps reach "outside their sandbox"--e.g. Acrobat Reader begging to be updated, web pages asking permission to send notifications, Chrome tabs playing audio, or Spotify showing an album cover overlay when you try to adjust volume for a different app.
No harm in supporting OS-level NetBeans notifications, but it should not be the default. -- Eirik -----Original Message----- From: Scott Palmer <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 18, 2020 11:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Netbeans notifications API > On May 18, 2020, at 9:54 AM, Neil C Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 14:37, Glenn Holmer <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Yes, they are. We want native notifications so we can have native >> notifications. > > You asked why it couldn't be done in pure Java. > >> That's still not an answer. What is the use case? > > Notifications that show up outside of the IDE, eg. pop up above > another application when you've left the IDE doing something? Of > course, it's an interesting question of whether there's much overlap > between notifications you'd want to show up in the IDE window and not? > > Best wishes, > > Neil If the OS provides a notification mechanism, that is where notifications are expected and where notifications should go. However, this is really something that should be solved in the JDK desktop module, like the system tray… e.g. this: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/awt/TrayIcon.html#displayMessage-java.lang.String-java.lang.String-java.awt.TrayIcon.MessageType- Though if other non-system-tray notifications should be used, then it is still something that should be addressed by the desktop module and then used by NetBeans. I suggest the efforts go towards generic notification support in OpenJDK and then come back to utilize it in NetBeans. ;-) Cheers, Scott --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
