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Bug 219182

Summary:	consider making the notification popup only show notifications relevant to the current working set
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Willian Mitsuda <wmitsuda>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	CC:	steffen.pingel
Version:	dev
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Vista
Whiteboard:

Description Willian Mitsuda

2008-02-15 16:48:02 EST

Even if you have task working sets activated, you get notifications for all tasks.

I think it should display only notifications for tasks contained in the current working sets. Notification popups are a intrusive feature, and should be used carefully to not annoy the user.

Comment 1 Mik Kersten

2008-02-18 20:44:04 EST

I'm currently -1 on this suggestion, because the notifications are one of the few things that we have which are intended to distract the user into considering a switch to another task.  For example, if I have my personal working set selected, but see a notification with a blocker bug from Mylyn, I might need to switch into the Mylyn working set.

However, I could see us making this an option, especially if we figure out a way to visually indicate how many incomings are present on non-active working sets.

Comment 2 Willian Mitsuda

2008-02-19 13:57:34 EST

Well, the problem is the level of distraction the user is willing to accept :)

Actually, Mylyn provides all or nothing. An mid-level would be "only from active working sets".

We can make this an preference.

Comment 3 Mik Kersten

2008-02-20 21:05:54 EST

Agreed.

Comment 4 Mik Kersten

2008-05-14 20:15:19 EDT

Need to defer this, we can consider for 3.1.

Comment 5 Mik Kersten

2009-02-26 19:44:17 EST

This is a more involved task that will require a notification preference UI.  Not currently a priority.

Comment 6 Mik Kersten

2009-07-24 11:50:22 EDT

Not planning to do this, but others interested can vote.

Comment 7 Eclipse Webmaster

2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST

Mylyn has been restructured, and our issue tracking has moved to GitHub [1].

We are closing ~14K Bugzilla issues to give the new team a fresh start. If you feel that this issue is still relevant, please create a new one on GitHub.

[1] https://github.com/orgs/eclipse-mylyn