UI - explore improved notification UX

[stevencl]

Goal: to explore an improved notification experience that resolves the current notification UX problems

Plan of action

• Compile list of notification UX issues
• Storyboards on two different options
• Socialisation and discussion with team
• Customer research

[Srekel]

In case it's not on your list of things to fix: One of the more annoying things is that there's no way to disable popups, at least for plugins.

I've installed the CMake plugin to get syntax highlighting, but it complains about not having cmake installed/configured, and it pops up a notification very very frequently. Preferably all such notifications should have a "disable this notification" button. For extra fancy points, allow the user to disable just for the session, per file (?), and permanently in the user/workspace settings.

[NickCraver]

To throw a concrete case on that's growing:
When dealing with .NET Core especially, the amount of prompts to run a restore is absolutely maddening. Can this scenario please be coordinated and improved on?

Yes, VS Code, I know I just changed the project file. I was right here when I did it. PLEASE STOP PROMPTING ME BEFORE I'VE HAD A CHANCE TO EVEN DO ANYTHING. Holy crap that's an insanely annoying behavior. Some other plugins do the same. I absolutely want to mute some plugins outright, possibly based on verbosity level.

[HawkenKing]

hi @bpasero you wondered what type of warnings I was getting while using Unity.

By default Unity will add a few lines to the top new .cs files, these are in basically every file. The "using" includes are not always used, so appear with green squiggle underlines.

However every time you start up VSCode, it warns you about these.


The warning isn't really necessary, I'd trade access to my tabs for this warning anyday.

[bpasero]

@HawkenKing I see, you could also report this to their extension asking for a more pleasant experience (e.g. allow to never show the warning again).