Notifications widget

Good question, it looks like it was lost and only lives in a customer project. But we can that back easily. What it was is simply a view which shows all unseen notifications for the current user and also prints the number of records in the header of the view. This view can be displayed in a block and that would then be styled with css so that only the number will be displayed and with a mouse over the list of notifications will drop-down.

If anyone wanted to build that a start a merge request in this issue, I'm happy to review and merge it into the module then.

@Janner I'm working on it.

A first version of this is now available in the 2.2.x-dev release and is waiting for feedback.

Here is what is implemented:

• notification icon with a drop down, showing new notifications only
• a tab in the user profile going to the notification archive
• an rss feed for each user

For testing this, please update to the latest dev release, flush your cache and then import the config entities from the config/optional directory. You can do that with drush, e.g. with this command:

drush cim --partial --source modules/contrib/danse/config/optional

Looks like this topic has been asked for by many for a long period of time, for good reasons. It was just missing.

Somehow frustrating though, if a maintainer then gets around to provide the solution for it, nobody cares any more. No review and no feedback, as if it wasn't important in the first place.

Closing the issue, the code just landed in version 2.2.13

Being a Drupal maintainer seems to be a lonely and thankless job! I kind of wish the issues queues had a more social aspect. You know, like a "thumbs up" option or similar feedback mechanisms to encourage more activity. I realize it would not strictly help with the coding aspects, but might make for a more welcoming and interactive environment.

For example, this is a great development update! I'm sure I was one of the people asking for it some time ago. Needs a +1 button for sure.

Thanks @GNUMatrix this actually not too bad. In fact I really enjoy being a maintainer in the Drupal community.

The social aspects you're referring to with all the aspects you mentioned will be here soon, when issues will be migrated over to GitLab. Talking about a thankless job? Ask the engineers from the Drupal Association who are working hard on that part. Not only is that a gigantic job, there is also resistance from the community - like always when things are changing ;-)

Wow, interesting. That's a big change for sure! Change can be exciting though, so looking forward to it.