[Sugar-devel] Notification without activity instance

[Sam Parkinson]

Hi,

Three different ideas.

Number 1:
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Maybe you should do this like the (non-social) help, and not display the
option for activities that don't have a form.  I'm not sure how possible
that would be; depends on your architecture.

Number 2:
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Why don't you just do like what happens in the journal?

When the journal can't find any items it replaces the listview with a label
that says "Can't find anything :P" (okay, not exactly).

Number 3:
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I think Walter made a pull request to add a service to show notification
banners (like you want).  Here is the pull request & discussion:
https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/139


On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Prasoon Shukla <prasoon92.iitr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It's actually just like view source - you can be running any activity and
> upon pressing the shortcut, the social-help activity is launched. However,
> if there is no category (in the discourse forum) for currently active
> activity, then we just want to display a notification saying so.
>
> I really would like help with this - I'm stuck at this point.
> ᐧ
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 12:04 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Prasoon Shukla <prasoon92.iitr at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I've had this problem for some time now and I couldn't find a solution
>>> to it.
>>>
>>> The use case is like this: The user presses a keyboard shortcut
>>> (alt+shift+c) to launch an activity. However, if a certain condition is
>>> met, we *don't* launch the activity and instead we show the user a
>>> notification in the currently active/running activity. I want to show a
>>> notification and I *don't* have the activity instance on which I can
>>> attach a NotificationAlert.
>>>
>>
>> Are you trying to start one activity from another activity?
>> What code you use to start the activity?
>>
>> Gonzalo
>>
>>
>
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