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Synergistic Rollup Behaviour #318

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What feature or enhancement do you propose?
While Rollup is a great feature, I'm not too keen on the current behaviour. A 
more synergistic one would be to simply have it use the same style as actual 
notifications, by displaying a discreet notification.

This notification could be a simply square profile item, featuring a "Stack" of 
icons (like Apple's Dock Stacks) with icons for the applications that have 
Rolled up notes, in a floating note that *has* to be dismissed before new 
notifications will arrive. Clicking this will expand it into a full list of 
notifications to dismiss, like what we have now, but matching whichever style 
the user has chosen (so it would be like expanding the "Stack" notification).

Being able to specify a separate style from normal notes would be nice as well 
actually, to distinguish the Rollup, but keep the positioning and appearance 
user customisable. Perhaps a dedicated Rollup pane similar to the Displays one 
(or a tab within that?) with all the same options, but some Rollup specific 
extra options as well such as display as Stack or List, how many seconds to 
wait before starting Rollup of notes and so-on.

What problem does it solve/What benefit does it provide?
The idea is to make a much less obtrusive, and more elegant interface and 
behaviour for the otherwise great Rollup feature. Currently the big 
centre-screen notice is a bit glaring, and after all it is a type of notice, so 
it makes sense to treat it in a similar fashion so it can be kept where the 
user wants it. The "Stack" idea should be nice and neat, but bold enough to 
warrant action, without being intrusive.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by harav...@gmail.com on 8 Oct 2011 at 10:18

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Oh, I forgot to add as well, that another Rollup option could be to simply move 
it into the menubar, specifically if issues #316 and #317 are implemented then 
this could be another good alternative, as the menubar widget is nice and 
discreet, even more so than a notification would be, but can give enough of a 
visual cue to be actionable. Ideally it would still bring up the Rollup list to 
avoid confusion with History, or to prevent the menu getting too unwieldy, 
perhaps a Rollup entry with a number indicating the quantity of notes?

On which point, the Stack view should also have a badge of some kind to 
indicate number of Rollup notes, forgot to mention that too =)

Original comment by harav...@gmail.com on 8 Oct 2011 at 10:22

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by ch...@growl.info on 14 Nov 2011 at 12:43

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
You have about 2-3 requests here, and the use of synergistic isn't very 
descriptive. We're not going to have theming in rollup. Please file separate 
issues on the separate items you want to have done.

We can't assume the user has a menubar icon, or a dock icon. Keep that in mind. 

I'm not opposed to behavior change or changing how rollup looks, but it should 
just work for people.

Original comment by ch...@growl.info on 17 Nov 2011 at 3:20

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Fine, I've added this as issue #371 (display Rollup as a notification), #372 
(Stack display) and #373 (Rollup to menubar widget or dock icon).

Original comment by harav...@gmail.com on 17 Nov 2011 at 10:21