[sldev] Notifications redesign

[Tateru Nino]

Lawson English wrote:
> Kent Quirk (Q Linden) wrote:
> [...]
>>  In fact, it's a design goal of the project to separate the 
>> notification queue management from the UI presentation layer.
>
> Hooray!. Once that is done, you can experiment with things until you 
> come up with something that makes most people at least somewhat 
> less-unhappy. ;-)
>
> Without it, you guys are really stuck with making minor tweaks to the 
> same interface, which makes *everyone* unhappy (especially, I am 
> guessing, the guys trying to fix the user interface).

Well, the logical first step is to generalize and abstract the 
notifications, then refit the transmission mechanism. The UI can be 
looked at as a separate project, and any additional (if any) refitting 
the notification transmission system requires should be minor when it 
comes to actually implementing the UI.

That also gives you plenty of time to figure out what your goals are for 
the UI portion itself. We've already established a pretty reasonable 
sounding set of goals for the underlying architecture by the sound of it.

-- 
Tateru Nino
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