DesktopNotifications for better notifications

I've been using GMail's web interface as my primary email client for a good while now. The favicon number showing the amount of unread mail, alongside the desktop notifications popping up, letting me know that I just have received new mail, I haven't needed anything else. Anyways, since Vaadin should be able to imitate apps like GMail equally good, if not even better, I thought Vaadin needed these desktop notifications too. So I coded them!

You can try them yourself at http://henrik.virtuallypreinstalled.com/DesktopNotifications/. Make note that the example will make sense only in Google Chrome - any other browser isn't supported.

Since the application asks you for permissions that are saved in your applications, you can change whatever you answer by going to the url chrome://settings/contentExceptions#notifications.

Download add-on from the directory: http://vaadin.com/directory#addon/desktopnotifications
Or fork the source on github: https://github.com/wolfie/DesktopNotifications.

This is a great add-on! Thank you very much!

Great add-on but there is no method to close notification after a delay or not...

Hi, in Vaadin 7 I can't add the DesktopNotifier as a component, what is the new way? Thank you.

It is an extension nowadays, so you'll want to use the protected "UI.addExtension()" method to attach it (see example).

But from what I remember, Chrome has modified the API on the desktop notifications, and I haven't had the inspiration to modify the addon accordingly, so it probably won't currently work anyways.

Not working on chromw 49.0.2623.110

Hi , is there a maven dependency that support vaadin 6 ? or anything else in vaadin 6 that helps to achive the goal "notification should appear even the browser tab is minimized " ?