I’m investigating a
problem when uploading volumes to Storage Pools and
switching tabs and I was thinking that some messages should
be available no matter which tab the user is currently on.
For instance, If I’m cloning or migrating a guest, uploading
a volume or copying a volume from a remote host etc. and
switch tabs, I should know if the task failed without having
to switch back to the tab I started this action. Currently
we have to do this because only when the browser goes
through a function that lists the ongoing tasks inside these
tabs that it will receive the error messages. However, if I
have a modal window opened, it wouldn’t make sense to show a
message that has a different context from this opened
window.
I think that a good
solution for this problem would be Notification API for
browsers that already support it:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification
Support is relatively
good:
http://caniuse.com/#search=notifications
Thanks,
Samuel