[katello-devel] Moving Notifications

[Jason Rist]

On 07/18/2011 04:34 PM, Justin Sherrill 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.
>>
> I'm not referring to multiple validation errors in a single
> notification, but more the way we keep error notifications around until
> the user clicks on them, even if what the notification was for has
> succeeded.
> 
> For example, if i go to create an Environment and it already exists,
> I'll keep getting notifications popups for every time it fails, which is
> fine.  But when i finally do create the environment successfully they
> still stay up.  I had brought up previously the idea of closing failed
> notifications once an action was successful but i guess we hadn't gotten
> around to it.
> 
> I understand for things like syncs or other severe errors we don't want
> to auto-close notifications, but for simple form validation I don't
> think I need to click to close it.  I don't believe I've ever seen a web
> interface where I have to 'click' to hide simple form validations.
> 
> I like your changes, I just think it will make the above issue more
> obvious (i.e. something we should solve :) )
> 
> -Justin
> 
> 
> 
Roger that, and yeah, we should add that to the list, I guess :-/

-J

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