Any recommendation on Editor Banner vs. Balloon Notification?

IntelliJ Platform
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Hey there,

I’m currently working on a plugin that adds supports for an OSS library, and I’m also building support for the SaaS version/product of it.

The plan is, when users open a file supported by the library, the plugin would show a notification that it has integration with the SaaS one, and prompt users to create an account or log in if they already have one.

I’ve been looking into the different types of notifications, and the Editor Banner and the Balloon Notifications stand out as the most suitable ones. However, it is not clear which one would be a better fit. (I read the SDK docs, but still.)

Do you have any pros/cons for the mentioned notification types for such a use case?

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See the UI guideline on notifications.

In your case, creating an account/logging in isn’t required, so balloons would be the best choice.

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We have recently used this editor notification panel in our plugin. In general users hate notifications a lot and we try to avoid them by using non-modal UIs.

Please only use editor notifications in relevant files / file types if you decide to go this way.

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Thank you to both of you!

For now, I’ll go with a balloon, but this screenshot makes editor banners enticing too to use.