[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #35210: Add notification area to Customizer

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#35210: Add notification area to Customizer
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 Reporter:  westonruter                          |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  4.7
Component:  Customize                            |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch ui-feedback ux-feedback  |     Focuses:  ui,
                                                 |  javascript
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Comment (by melchoyce):

 Putting aside the creepy eye icon and whatever the calendar icon are (I
 had no idea until I read "Snapshots" and "Scheduling UI" what they would
 be, and even now I'm not sure what either of those things means, and in
 any rate neither should be the focus of this ticket)...

 How often are you going to receive that many Customizer errors? This seems
 like overkill.

 > I also think people assume it's something in WordPress we're not using
 it for. This is for information, notes - not for personal notifications or
 comments.

 I agree. Using a bubble like that makes it seem like the user is receiving
 a notification. "Oh, maybe if I click this I'll see my recent comments on
 my posts? Oh, nope, that's something I don't understand, let me never
 click this again." This is the wrong metaphor for this kind of interface,
 which adds an extra layer of confusion.

 I also think that we should be focusing on putting errors within the
 context of whatever is going wrong. Errors are more helpful when displayed
 inline with whatever feature caused the error. If it's a feature-
 independent error, I can see displaying it at the top of the Customizer,
 like in [comment:35], but we should be striving to bring clarity to errors
 and providing suggestions to fix those errors.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35210#comment:79>
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