UI: Notification experience improvements

[bryphe]

@jordwalke had some great ideas around improving our notifications story in the Discord.

A persistent number of 'new messages' that are 'unread' in the statusbar.

Message animates in when a new notification comes in:

Messages are shown in the bottom:

And can expand the pane:

[bryphe]

The UX for notifications is very spammy and not very friendly right now. I really like the proposal here to showcase notifications in the status bar instead - maybe something we can explore @glennsl ?

A few things we'd have to consider:

• How long do messages 'stay' in the status bar?
• Do they cover up the items in the status bar? Or fit in between them?

I think the 'search pane' + the diagnostics pane in #1034 would be a natural place we could surface these. the full log.

[jordwalke]

Only problem with the search pane position as the sole locations that I can see, is that many of these messages are intended to be very lightweight, and should be visible even in a minimalist windowing configuration. I think the search pane would be a great place to see the entire history of logs though. You definitely want a place to go explore old logs and that pane seems like the right place.

[bryphe]

Only problem with the search pane position as the sole locations that I can see, is that many of these messages are intended to be very lightweight, and should be visible even in a minimalist windowing configuration.

Definitely! I like the idea of using the status bar for the showing of the notifications - the experience seems much better than what we have now.

I think my comment above made it sound like I only wanted them in the 'search pane', so I edited it a bit to clarify-