Redesign notifications to address various issues with them and provide a unified action/notification area.
- Project Lead: gavin
- Project Members: faaborg (UX)
Design
Status
Functional patch for geo-only is nearly ready for review. Need to tidy up styling a little bit on Linux/Windows, and need to make some changes in response to faaborg's latest mockups (adding separate urlbar icon area).
Goals
- Design and implement a new notification system as a replacement for notification boxes, to address their current limitations
Non-Goals
Timeline / Milestones
Main tracking bug: bug 398776.
Sub-tasks
- Implement new notification API (popup based, allows specifying primary action button / secondary action menus)
- Use geolocation notification as initial proof of concept consumer.
- Migrate existing notificationbox users to new API
- Styling improvements to menu-buttons (bug 509642, notification panels, etc.)
Testing
- Notification API test suite as part of initial implementation
- Backfill and updating of tests for current notifications