On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 12:46 PM, Guillaume Delhumeau < guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com> wrote:
> Notifications application is almost ready to replace the Activity Stream's > UI. The only remaining thing is the display > of the messages from the Message Stream in the Notifications. > > We have made a quick brainstorming with Caty and Vincent, and here is our > conclusions. > > 1/ We think it make sense to display user messages in the notifications > because it is typically what notifications > are made for: pop-up important information concerning what the user cares. > In the past, we decided to disable the > Message Stream by default because messages were lost in the Activity > Stream. But in the case of the notifications, users > can chose what they want to receive so there is less chance to miss > messages in the middle of thousand of events. > > 2/ Like all other types of notification, there should be a button in the > notification settings of each user to decide to > enable or disable these messages in the notifications. It should be enabled > by default. > > > 3/ We should add the "send message" gadget in the "alert" menu (via an UIX) > so it's easy to find and to send messages. > I'm not very convinced by this. It will clutter the notification menu. An alternative is to show just an icon/button on the notification menu, that opens a popup (modal) with the form to send message. > > 4/ Provide a form to be able to reply to a personal message. > > 5/ Let the message stream disabled by default. Users who are used to it > will not lose the feature but we don't make it > visible for now until we make some other improvements. > > This is what I am starting to implement right now with the hope it's done > for XWiki 10.5. > > In the future, we should add the following features: > > a/ Having a real "inbox" application (a "Message Center") to handle all > messages. > > b/ Be notified when someone mention you in a content or in a comment > (example: "@vmassol: You may want to read this > page" will trigger a notification to Vincent Massol). > > c/ Handling correcty messages sent to a group if the first implementation > do not handle it (group filtering could be a problem > with SQL). > > Caty, Vincent, please reply if I've forget something. > > All others: if you have any recommendation or counter argument, please post > it quickly :) > > Thanks for you time and have a great day, > > Guillaume > > -- > Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com) > Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS > Committer on the XWiki.org project >
