Re: [eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - August Oct 29, 2003

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dejan, we have prototype API that does
exactly what you're looking for.  See IProgressManager.requestInUI.
 The implementation is still crude (a non-modal dialog), but it illustrates
the idea.  See the enhancement bug report for details or to add feedback:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=41806

Ideas on presentation welcome.  I
suggested a windows-update style curvy message bubble coming out of the
status line, but UI team wasn't too keen on the idea <g>.

John.

Dejan wrote on 10/28/2003 05:49:41 PM:

> Discussion Topic:
> - As part of responsive UI effort, as more PDE, Help and Update foreground
> tasks move to the background, we have encountered many case where
a more
> subtle notification is needed to mark the end of a task or possible
> problems. Example: Update needs to tell the user that background search
for
> new updates found something; PDE needs to tell the user that background
> export failed for some reason; Help needs to tell the user that background
> indexing is done and search results can be viewed. In all these cases,
we
> need some kind of a 'slurper' from the status line that is less 'in
your
> face' than a modal message box.