[sldev] Notifications redesign

Tateru Nino tateru.nino at gmail.com
Mon Feb 11 18:12:40 PST 2008


Undockable Notifications tab in the communicate window, accompanied by 
an onscreen indicator to show that there are pending notifications?

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> Well, speaking as someone who has been doing control system 
> development for years, notifications (we call them alarms) are a Big 
> Deal.
>
> Typically in a control system you can:
>
> * View current (unacknowledged) alarms in a list.
> * View individual alarm details.
> * Review recent acknowledged or unacknowledged alarms.
> * Filter alarms.
> * Acknowledge individual alarms, all displayed alarms (subject to 
> filter), all non-critical alarms, and all alarms of an individual class.
>
> I have long wished that computer software for desktops had these kinds 
> of tools, rather than just displaying each individual notification as 
> a separate dialog box. In SL, where you can have many many pending 
> notification (unacknowledged alarms) this is even more critical.
>
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