contao/import — Issue #2214: Large Icon, Badges and Pop-up/E-mail Notification support 
Author: importer
Created: 2011-11-29 19:13:41+00:00
State: open
Labels: Accepted, backend, Feature

These kinda go together, so I'm bundling them.

**Large Icon**
I'm suggesting that we design a library of new icons at 128x128 or 512x512, then system can downscale them to 16x16, which leaves us to port the icons to larger sizes when needed, repository, new menu structures, etc. in the future

**Badges**
Small icons won't work well with badges, but this is a great feature that the iPhone/Mac has that we can implement. A Badge is a small red icon (or we can add green ones or blue ones) with a number inside it that displays there are new e-mails or sms's or whatever notification. This is useful if we left something incomplete (unpublished) and then the icon can change to add the badge icon to the normal icon as an overlay. This can of course be done at "archive" and "item" level, but this is difficult to achieve at BE MENU level. Wouldn't it be nice to see a small (10) in red next to the news icon to show there are 10 - unpublished stories. This would be particularly helpful on the "Main" page where TL lands. If you then click on the application, there can be a notice at the top (e.g. messages) where you can see that there are 10 unpublished stories. Of course you can turn this all off.

**Notifications**
This is the same as badges, but it would be nice to have a notification system where we can HOOK into, so that notifications can be sent daily (like iPhone push notifications) -- hooked into cron of course -- so that you can add your notification client easily. This would allow you to (1) send e-mails to the admin/creator/whatever list of who needs to be notified (like a log but sent to e-mail) and (2) can appear as a pop-up in the Back-end upon login, to remind you that you still need to do something, or (3) just leave it as a notification line at the TOP of the MAIN MENU landing page, or leave it at the "archive" or "item" list levels.

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--- _Originally created by thyon on July 1st, 2010, at 10:57am (ID 2214)_