- Issue created by @joeg8612
- 🇺🇸United States itmaybejj
Good feedback.
The proposed change is almost sounds awfully like something I iterated through during development. I went rooting around and found these early screenshots:
I thought the arrows were ambiguous -- they seemed unclear as to whether they would "dock/close the interface" or "go to next issue." I myself switched what they did a few times in those iterations. It also wasn't clear that the number was a count of "problems on the page" rather than, say, message notifications -- it seemed too easy to ignore. I gravitated towards having the number and the alert flag visible because I thought it was more eye-catching to have the flag come and go.
Another consideration...you can open and shut the checker even when there is no flag, so it seemed natural to use main toggle as the "next" rather than the number; otherwise I would need a third "power" icon.
Although in looking through old screenshots...I do not know if I explored another direction -- switching the position of the number and the flag. That would let the number increment to the next issue. Roughly mocking that up now, it could look something like:
...thoughts?
- 🇺🇸United States joeg8612
I think that seems better. It may be good to get more community input on this before making a change, given the large number of sites/authors already using 2.2.x. Thanks!
- 🇺🇸United States itmaybejj
Yeah I'll work on this in the 3.x branch. That will have a beta period that will be good for feedback.