[katello-devel] Moving Notifications

[Jason Rist]

On 07/18/2011 12:53 PM, Eric Helms wrote:
> On 07/18/2011 02:06 PM, Jason Rist wrote:
>> On 07/18/2011 12:04 PM, Justin Sherrill wrote:
>>> On 07/18/2011 01:35 PM, Jason Rist wrote:
>>>> I would like to propose that we move the notifications to the middle
>>>> top.  I've attached a screenshot with a "Proof of Concept" that I've
>>>> put
>>>> together (took me 5 minutes, and if you all agree, it'll be in the
>>>> refactor branch).
>>>>
>>>> I squeezed up the padding 5px and made the notification itself a bit
>>>> wider.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone object?
>>>>
>>>> -Jason
>>>>
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>>> I like this position much better (it always bothered me that the current
>>> way covers up the username/logout parts), but this seems like it would
>>> cover up the app a lot worse if there were multiple notifications (which
>>> is really annoying).
>>>
>>> -Justin
>>>
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>> Forgive me for being blunt, but isn't the point of the notifications to
>> be sort of in your face?  Should we have an option to turn them off?
>>
>> I've attached a validation error.
>>
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> That looks good, and I agree that covering up the logout and such was
> not the best.  I just wanted to ensure that on longer error messages the
> things that a user would need to edit in light of the notification (e.g.
> filling out the fields that had validation errors) were not covered up
> by the notification - and causing a user to close the notice and then
> forget what they had to fix.
> 
> - Eric
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Yeah, that's part of why I abandoned the bottom-center approach.  I'll
check this in.

-J

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