Microsoft fails again on Notification Center

[anon(5335877)]

How about an option that you can turn on or off that makes the toasts stay visable until you swipe them all away?

Then what happens when you get multiple? Will they just stack on top of each other (like iOS did pre-iOS 5) until you dismiss them?

 

[Big Supes]

This is a perfect example, Supes. There needs to be a central location that gathers those toasts. It's doesn't need to a pull down notcenter, just something central location.

If I got 10 notifications, while I was in a meeting or something, I don't want to click inside of every app to see what they were. I wan't to start in a central location where I can then determing which one I need to deal with first.

Absolutely. Whatever the solution, it needs to be quick and easy.

How about an option that you can turn on or off that makes the toasts stay visable until you swipe them all away?

That could work... I'm not sure how it would cope with multiple missed toasts. . .

. . . Maybe it would stagger the bar to show if there's more than one so you can swipe each toast away once you're done with it.

Something like that could work. It's simple and doesn't conflict with the user-experience.

 

[Big Supes]

Personally, I'd use the Me tile to log toasts. You could maximise the tile so you can read them without having to go into the notification list.

 

[tk-093]

Then what happens when you get multiple? Will they just stack on top of each other (like iOS did pre-iOS 5) until you dismiss them?

They would just pile on top of each other. (I think either WebOS or original Honeycomb on the Moto Xoom did it like that)

So when you swipe one away, the next one would be there. If you tapped on it, it would take you to the app.

Heck, you could make it act like the time/signal/battery info.. it can hide until you tap up there and it comes down.

 

[anon(5335877)]

They would just pile on top of each other. (I think either WebOS or original Honeycomb on the Moto Xoom did it like that)

So when you swipe one away, the next one would be there. If you tapped on it, it would take you to the app.

Heck, you could make it act like the time/signal/battery info.. it can hide until you tap up there and it comes down.

See but the problem with that is if you get a lot, you can't dismiss all at once, nor can you choose the order of which one you'd like to address first.

 

[TheNerdlyKnight]

Misleading title is misleading. While I agree that it would be nice to have a notifications tile/center I've never had an issue with the current notification screen and live tile set up. That's really the whole point, a clean, modern UI unhindered by tons of things going on. Longer toast notifications or some additional revamping of the current notification screen would work fine. By no means is it a deal breaker though.

 

[AngryNil]

she learned pretty quickly to unlock our phones, teaching her to swipe to the left to get to a kid friendly netflix, her sesame books, and a few other educational apps would be pretty welcome in my book.

So what purpose does that serve, exactly? It's a second home screen? Why not make it simply a toggle (through a tile or similar)? Notifications aren't a duplicate of the home screen.

And I thought the point of a "kid mode" is to block deeper functionality like purchases. This is why I'm advocating a tile which flips a tonne of functionality on and off. Another home screen doesn't do anything that adding a few tiles below a "kids" title added through Groupy wouldn't achieve.

 

[anon(5335877)]

So what purpose does that serve, exactly? It's a second home screen? Why not make it simply a toggle (through a tile or similar)? Notifications aren't a duplicate of the home screen.

And I thought the point of a "kid mode" is to block deeper functionality like purchases. This is why I'm advocating a tile which flips a tonne of functionality on and off. Another home screen doesn't do anything that adding a few tiles below a "kids" title added through Groupy wouldn't achieve.

Well, I guess it could also double as a "let a friend borrow your phone mode" to prevent those people who post stupid status messages on your Facebook, or people who snoop around reading your text messages?

I actually know nothing about the kid mode, so I have no idea if it'll work for that.

 

[Jazmac]

I agree with GT2L, we don't know 100% everything yet.

I think we kinda do. Microsoft has never been that good at keeping secrets before. When we waited for the 500 plus promises from Mango, not one of them was notification. Not one. And I still don't know what those were. If there was a such thing in Windows Phone 8, we'd know it by now. Won't move me off the platform not having it but I don't think it exists in WP8.

 

[power5]

Well, I guess it could also double as a "let a friend borrow your phone mode" to prevent those people who post stupid status messages on your Facebook, or people who snoop around reading your text messages?

I actually know nothing about the kid mode, so I have no idea if it'll work for that.

I thought the kids corner was activated by the parent swiping left. Then the phone is stuck there till they enter the password needed to get back to the main phone start screen. So the kid can go in and out of Kids Corner apps as they please and never get back to the main phone till they figure out the password. That was how I interpreted the description at least.

 

[aubreyq]

I think we kinda do. Microsoft has never been that good at keeping secrets before. When we waited for the 500 plus promises from Mango, not one of them was notification. Not one. And I still don't know what those were. If there was a such thing in Windows Phone 8, we'd know it by now. Won't move me off the platform not having it but I don't think it exists in WP8.

Microsoft has never been that good at keeping secrets but this year they're better than ever at doing that. There were no leaks for the Surface. Everybody was caught off guard.

 

[anon(5335877)]

I thought the kids corner was activated by the parent swiping left. Then the phone is stuck there till they enter the password needed to get back to the main phone start screen. So the kid can go in and out of Kids Corner apps as they please and never get back to the main phone till they figure out the password. That was how I interpreted the description at least.

Well I guess I was wondering if you could just add only the phone app to the kids corner, so if someone borrows my phone to call, that's ALL they can do.

Microsoft has never been that good at keeping secrets but this year they're better than ever at doing that. There were no leaks for the Surface. Everybody was caught off guard.

Yeah, Microsoft did great compared to Apple. Apple had leaks galore.

 

[Banstyle]

I didn't read all six pages of this thread but I just wanted to say: The iPhone/iPad notification dropdown is probably Apple intellectual property. You can't just steal it.

WP does a great job or reinventing everything they can, except for some features like pinch to zoom that they just license. But you can't call them failures for not ripping off another phone's design.

Okay I'm done.

 

[tk-093]

I didn't read all six pages of this thread but I just wanted to say: The iPhone/iPad notification dropdown is probably Apple intellectual property. You can't just steal it.

WP does a great job or reinventing everything they can, except for some features like pinch to zoom that they just license. But you can't call them failures for not ripping off another phone's design.

Okay I'm done.

iOS drop down is an Android rip off, no intellectual property there. Google actually filed to patent it in 2009.. not sure if they ever got it.

 

[Banstyle]

iOS drop down is an Android rip off, no intellectual property there. Google actually filed to patent it in 2009.. not sure if they ever got it.

Well, it was one of those two who will win over the IP rights. So it's best to simply not use it at all and let them go at it. It's not worth fighting them over it OR paying for a license to use it. With live tiles, there's little need for a dropdown.

 

[eric12341]

Ok the time has come to stick a fork in this, there are 2 camps over this and it's turning this discussion into a big circle. I think we can all just agree to disagree and lets enjoy all the goodness wp8 will bring.

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