Alert user on completion

[BigRoy]

Problem

For long publishes it often happens one minimizes the Window, yet it is never brought to attention when the processing finishes (e.g. after Validation with errors or after completing a valid publish)

Solution

Let the icon in the taskbar blink, like many applications do to hint something has happened.

Reference

https://gitter.im/pyblish/pyblish?at=58b6e89721d548df2c76a3ee
http://www.qtforum.org/article/12285/taskbar-blink-flash.html

[mottosso]

Would you like a popup balloon to appear as well? Could also tell you whether publishing failed or succeeded.

[BigRoy]

It could definitely. I'm wondering whether a user would only want to see that whenever the Pyblish window was "inactive" at the time of finishing? (E.g. when validating it might be done quickly)

[mottosso]

Sure, there could be a timer on it, say 10 seconds after leaving the window inactive.

[BigRoy]

Having checked with the users in our studio they think it would be a great addition to have a pop-up to become visible. Maybe just try the pop-up whenever it is inactive to begin with?

Also, I believe this is the kind of "alert" I'm referring to: http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qapplication.html#alert

[BigRoy]

Closing this to continue the balloon pop-up notification in another issue.