[wp-hackers] Dashboard "focus"

[Mark Jaquith]

Maybe just reduce it to headlines, and display the latest 3.  No reason 
for the feed to be the "main item" on the page.

Podz wrote:

> Owen Winkler wrote:
>
>> To that end, I would see the RSS on the Dashboard scrapped entirely 
>> for a Mozilla-like "update available" beacon that flashes when 
>> significant notices are released.  That, and make the Latest Activity 
>> section span the entire page.
>
>
> I agree !
> As for the Latest Activity not taking up a lot of space, can a plugin 
> not access that area ? Could it ? Then people could customise their 
> install even further.
> While the RSS is neat, I can see people asking very quickly how to get 
> rid of it hence my asking earlier for a very simple way for people to 
> do that.
>
> The 'Update' icon would be most useful IMO.
> P.