[dev] Re: [imp] Re: [dev] notifications and recurring tasks for NAG

[Jon Parise]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 03:14:21PM -0400, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> > A stray thought:  Wouldn't it be cool to highlight somehow the Horde frame
> > icon corresponding to a Horde app that has something to tell you?  Like
> > the old xbiff with the mailbox, where the flag goes up and it goes to
> > inverse-video when you have mail.  You could ring it in a brighter color
> > and change the icon, etc., for new mail, an alarm that's going off, etc.
> 
> That'd be really cool if we could pull it off in a nice way...
 
We could probably get away with changing the background color
around the icon or something like that (or toss a little flag
image in there).

Anyway, any solution like that would involve refreshing the Horde
menu frame.  We'd need to design some sort of infrastructure that
would either refresh that frame periodically (icky) or via
JavaScript tied to certain application events (kludgy).

Either way, that frame would have to poll some status information
from a global Horde session to which each application would be
able to queue up these event notifications.

-- 
Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Rochester Inst. of Technology
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member


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Subject: Re: [dev] Re: [imp] Re: [dev] notifications and recurring tasks for NAG

Quoting Jon Parise <jon@csh.rit.edu>:

> Anyway, any solution like that would involve refreshing the Horde
> menu frame.  We'd need to design some sort of infrastructure that
> would either refresh that frame periodically (icky) or via
> JavaScript tied to certain application events (kludgy).
> 
> Either way, that frame would have to poll some status information
> from a global Horde session to which each application would be
> able to queue up these event notifications.

Yup. How is that any more icky than the way that IMP currently refreshes itself 
(the mailbox and folder views) every so often? I guess it seems to me that 
having that frame refresh itself is the best way to go, and I'm not sure what's 
icky about that solution...?

-chuck

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