Message App and the 3 buttons - why are they needed ? #4171
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Posted at 2022-02-19 by Alessandro 100% agree. In my opinion the messages* app would be better with gestures:
In my free time I could try to write some code. I promise nothing but I'd like to contribute :-D *By the way, why is the app called "Messages"? Wouldn't "Notifications" be a better name? The app does nothing but show notifications ... Posted at 2022-02-19 by johan_m_o Tick - opens the notification Personally I have no use for the tick, but use the X quite often. Edit: If you're going to add in gestures, please make it an option. It's very much a personal preference. Posted at 2022-02-19 by HughB
I personally dont feel the need for these. Most of the time my phone will be locked anyway so dont really care what the notifications do on the phone. Swipe left , swipe right make sense, configurable make make perfect sense. I'd prefer to always manually delete the message or all messages. My use case is, notice I have a message, if its a 1 liner read it and take it in. If its from Joe and its a long message and I dont want to read it all now then, automatically mark it as read as I have seen it, but I can go back to it later on when time allows. Posted at 2022-02-19 by HughB
It can show TEXTs, WhatsApp messages, Facebook Messenger messages. It depends if you have set your phone up to pass on these to GadgetBridge. Posted at 2022-02-19 by Alessandro
Precisely! I can receive a notification from a Calendar app/RSS reader/a game etc. "Notifications" is a more generic name but it's only my opinion :-) Posted at 2022-02-19 by HughB To me its all about the messages. Notifications on a phone can be a bit spammy so I tend not to configure many of them to go through GadgetBridge - but I do want to see that SMS from my wife etc. Posted at 2022-02-21 by @gfwilliams There's a post about this from just over a week ago http://forum.espruino.com/conversations/372566 and I believe there's already an open issue on GitHub too What the buttons do is detailed in the README. My concern with the swipe is it's pretty non-intuitive if there's no clue as to what to do - it's not like anyone actually reads the readme file so all the info about what to do really needs to be on the screen. I guess we could have some text and arrows right at the bottom of the screen though... Posted at 2022-02-22 by rigrig Even if I did read the README, I'm sure I'd constantly forget the difference between left/right swipes. But for notifications I could do without the "open" option: it seems kind of pointless, because you could just open it on your phone. I do want to choose between dismissing a notification right away (also from my phone), or keeping it around. I was thinking something like this:
Maybe we should look into making all notifications scrollable right away? I mean making the whole screen scrollable: for a large text you would have to scroll down to see the buttons. (That would need some thinking about Bangle.js 1 buttons though) Posted at 2022-02-22 by RaoulDuke How about this for notification messages: Posted at 2022-02-22 by HughB I'm closing this thread as I have started another thread at about the UI design of the messages app. The 3 buttons are documented in the README file at: |
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Posted at 2022-02-19 by HughB
I have just closed the defect I logged about the 3 buttons in the message app being too close together so it was hard to select them.
However I would like to challenge why these buttons are needed at all. They seem a but unintuitive to me.
<- takes you back - but I'm quite happy to press what to me is the back button.
Tick - no idea what it does in practice
X - no idea what it does in practice.
The act of displaying a message is enough to acknowledge it. Is anything else really neeed ?
Personally I'd rather have a larger initial display space that was scrollable. (I know we have the option to display large / scroll which is great).
Maybe we could have an option to disable these buttons ?
What does everyone else think ? Do you find these buttons a bit confusing ?
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