Participation mode - Usability enhancements

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TSG's Browser-based Annotation Tool

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Participation mode - Usability enhancements #96

Open dgrumieaux opened 9 years ago

dgrumieaux commented 9 years ago

Participation mode's user experience could be improved. This is a place where we can track ideas.

[x] - chat notifications
[x] - activity indicators
[ ] - annotation animations (to indicate when another user has added an annotation)
[x] - notification numbers for unchecked notifications
[x] - update user notification (currently toggles the both sidebars when a user joins)
[ ] - Chat message archive.
[x] - A button that silences / enables notifications
[ ] - Sounds for notifications
[ ] - Allow popup notifications to be closed OR clicked to redirect to the Participants tab
[ ] - Close all active notification popups when navigating to the Participants tab

m-brouillette commented 9 years ago

Addressed a few of the ideas for UI/UX improvement above. We now have: -Dismissible popup notifications when the user doesn't have the Participants tab open. -A number tracking unchecked collaboration notifications on the sidebar / show button. -A toolbar indicator of the current active user count, which opens the participants tab when clicked. -Notifications for other users joining / leaving. -Notifications for disconnection/reconnection to the chat server.

Leaving this enhancement open as I'm planning on doing a second phase of improvements.

OA REV - 2642 CR - dgrumieux

m-brouillette commented 8 years ago

@dgrumieaux Also suggested this library, if we ever want to push those notifications to the user's desktop, rather than just keeping them in the OA browser window: http://nickersoft.github.io/push.js/demo.html#