Firmware feature request: Split Screen Notifications

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Hey everyone!
One of the very few things I dislike about my OG Pebbles is that if I get a notification it’s really hard to check for the current time since it’s displayed really small at the top of the screen.
Since the new watches have larger screens with higher resolutions it would be great to be able to split the screen for incoming notifications so it’s a little bit like the calendar event notifications on the OG Pebbles but with more content obviously.

I’m imagining these features/options for this:

  • Notification display options: full screen/top/bottom/off
  • Expand notification button (ENB): on/off
  • If ENB is set to off: Up and Down buttons scroll the notification in the split screen view
  • If ENB is set to on: depending on the display area the closer button expands the notification (when display option set to top → Up button expands it, when set to bottom → Down expands it)
  • after expanding the Up and Down buttons behave like the display option is set to full screen (they scroll the notification) until the notification is dismissed/responded/otherwise handled and the next new notification arrives
  • the opposite button dismisses the notification and sets a reminder for when you’re being “inactive”/calm for 5min
  • the “Back” button still dismisses the notification normally as well as the Middle button still opens the menu to respond/mark as read/etc at all times

Maybe someone on the dev team also thinks that’s a nice idea to implement. :slight_smile:

If you got any questions/thoughts/feelings about this just let me know.

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I’d like to see dynamic StatusBar support - I think this might help with the problem you are looking to solve. It visually looks like a StatusBar (not checked the code to confirm) is used in notifications.

StatusBarLayer // Pebble Developers seems to have static sizes. It would be cool if text setting size for the watch settings could control the size of the bar AND the font size.

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yep, this would also be a nice solution although this wouldn’t let you see your watchface while reading the notification on the other half of the screen.

But this definitely would be a step into the right direction since you can at least make the time more readable :slight_smile: