Make unread notifications more eye-catching

[samk-acw]

NetBox version

v4.1-beta1

Feature type

Change to existing functionality

Proposed functionality

The new notification functionality looks promising, but the only indicator I see is the small bell icon in the top-right corner, which is quite easy to miss if you're not consciencely looking for it.

Some options for improvement I could think of:

• Make the bell icon larger
• Change the colour for unread notifications - the teal colour blends in with the new colour scheme, red might stand out more
• Reposition the icon location - next to the search bar would be a more central area that is looked at more often than the top-right corner
• On page load, if there's unread notifications, automatically open the dropdown menu that shows the notification details
• More extreme option of the above - on page load, show the unread notification details in a modal/popup.

Use case

Notifications should be obvious to the user, otherwise they can be missed.

Database changes

none

External dependencies

none

[jeremystretch]

I agree that the icon is a bit small. We could also look into an animation but that's probably overkill.

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[abhi1693]

@jeremystretch I'd like to take this. I can implement point 1 and point 2 from the description. Everything else seems to be a broader scope for the implementation. If you agree, let me know.