Implement a Notification Center
Other OS' have already implemented a notification center that are really helpful to users. It would be great if elementary had one so third party apps can take advantage of it, such as Midori. A notification center allows people to see what they've missed. There's already an notifications indicator that Pear OS uses but I'm not familiar with it.
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Implemented
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loki
- Started by
- Danielle Foré
- Completed by
- Danielle Foré
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Notification center is a terrible idea - it always ends up being a place where all the info from different sources is dumped and you can hardly find anything in that mess.
And really, it's not the notifications, but the action items you don't want to miss. And they should be displayed in the dock badges. This way you can easily have an overview of the action items you have, sorted by app, and view them in full and in context instead of the snippets that notifications are. --shnatsel
Fair enough. Rethinking the concept of notifications, elementary already has a messaging menu/indicator which provides a notification center for Empathy messages, which are is what most notifications consists of for most people. I agree with you, although I think the Messaging Indicator could be upgraded to be more useful if it could integrate better with some web services and maybe Midori, similar to Unity web apps.
- Linus Bobcat (Edited)
@shnatsel:
But what is with the apps that aren't in the dock, but in the app-launcher. Then I always have to check all app-launcher-icons for badges. --Carlos
I agree that a notification-center would be great. Badges are very good, but an additional notification-center would have some benefits. With badges you have to open each of the badged programs to see, what is new. E.g. say you have 4 programs with badges that indicate something new. Then you have to open the 4 programs, see what is new and maybe close them again. And maybe some of these things are totally unimportant. With a notification-center you e.g. see that the mails are less important than your current work, unimportant or even spam and you don't have to open them at the moment.. Some people even prefer to always show the notification-center at the side, so that they always see, if new notifications are important and or not - of they can wait or not... And those users who don't need a notification-center simply don't open it. It doesn't distract them. Therefore I think a notification-center would be a great addition to the badges. - Felix
