I don't have any objection, but I find myself wondering if approval
requests belong in the same place as notifications or not. They probably
do and I'm just slow to wrap my mind around it.
As I see it now, it doesn't have to necessarily be only approvals, but
in general they are questions which need my (user's) attention.
But I might have been wrong. The best way how to figure it out is from
some use-cases. I was just thinking what information user needs to
notified about (what happened in the system)? And regarding types I
found these three groups:
"!" - something went wrong (typically errors)
"." - something happened and doesn't need my full attention (usually
success or some neutral action)
"?" - something can't continue without my interaction/decision
(usually approval)
Do you find any other cases?
I kind of like the way Facebook does this, where notifications stick
around in the list but are no longer bold / called out in a number.
Yes, this is the way I like too - highlighting new notifications and old
one still keep in list. Seeing notification dismisses it (except the
ones which need my interaction, for these an answer dismisses them).
Speaking of which: http://tommoor.github.com/tinycon/ is nifty.
This looks cool and handy, thanks for bringing it out! :)
-- Jarda
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