Doomsday Engine

There is a potential for miscommunication of the status of the alert(s) with this kind of mechanism. If an uneducated user sees the alert simply disappear of its own accord after a few minutes it could be misconstrued as the problem having "fixed itself".

Maybe instead of simply disappearing when the timer is up, the indicator could instead fade away slowly? Visually, this would suggest (to me at least) that the issue remains but that we're forgetting about it because clearly the user isn't interested.

After having hidden itself, it should also be possible to reveal the alerts again, later.

Another minor improvement I'd like to see is for the indicator to "flex" when a new alert first occurs. Presently, if an alert is already waiting there is no visual indication that a new alert has occurred other than a color change when switching from "viewed previous" to "new alert" state (i.e., if the user hasn't yet viewed the previous alert they will have no idea that another has arrived since).

I added #1891 to cover overall improvements to the notification area, as these are not specific to the alerts as such.

danij wrote:

After having hidden itself, it should also be possible to reveal the alerts again, later.

True, that would be nice to have. However, since all of the warnings are visible in the log history, I don't see this as a very high priority feature.