[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #43484: WordPress Notification Center proposal

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#43484: WordPress Notification Center proposal
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 Reporter:  hedgefield    |       Owner:
     Type:  feature       |      Status:  new
  request                 |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
 Priority:  normal        |     Version:
Component:  General       |  Resolution:
 Severity:  normal        |     Focuses:  ui, accessibility, administration
 Keywords:  ux-feedback   |
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Changes (by karmatosed):

 * keywords:   => ux-feedback


Comment:

 Cool feature and I am a huge fan of notification systems when useful but
 not shouty. This seems to be on the useful side :)

 What notification systems did you look at when considering the design?

 There feels like a few things that are super useful to those managing a
 lot of things missing we could consider:

 - Filtering the notifications by that day, week and so on
 - A link to adjust settings in header

 I wander how useful 'mark all as read' is. My concern is that's quite
 prominent placing for it. This could easily have a mistaken click and boom
 all go, not great user experience.

 I would also look to the notifications themselves. For example what is the
 visual hierarchy there:

 - Do we need to have bold and what are bold?
 - Do we need time and is that too small or right placing?

 From a plugin perspective how do they add notifications? I assume this is
 code?

 To answer your direct questions:

 > Can we agree on a set of notification properties that provide a
 consistent experience and that plugin authors can be happy with?

 We need to really distill down and build up. Maybe we firstly do not have
 open to plugins. Get it in and have it just for system, then add for
 plugins. I would advise this route.

 > Which notification categories can we define, and should it only ever be
 possible to assign a category, or are plugin authors allowed to supply
 icons for their own notifications too?

 I think we need to limit this.

 > How best to approach the backwards compatibility so we don’t break (all)
 existing admin notices? Can some type of conversion be made?

 What would break? Could we eventually just move all to this?

 > Is it enough to only show the notifications in the sidebar, or should
 there be a separate notifications page, maybe with filtering? (Probably
 not for MVP at least)

 I think we need to test this, it's an assumption I'm not comfortable
 making. We need a settings page for this and need to link wherever the
 notifications show.

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