Comment 4 for bug 763567

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Astuur (wolfsteinmetz) wrote :

I have meanwhile gained some more experience with using the message inbox.

Starting out from the observation that almost all messages that ever appear there
are linked to a map location, and those messages are almost worthless without
showing the location, I wonder whether the window as it is now is not a wrong approach
for the funcionality we'd want.
Instead we might wnat to always show the message together with its location.

I would favour a button (and keyboard key) that would automatically do the following things in sequence:
1) save the viewport position that I currently have,
2) warp me to the location that has generated the latest acustical signal
3) open a window showing the message text (offset,not covering the location!) and these buttons:
  archive the message, close the window staying at this location
 archive the message, close the window going back to were I was (saved position)
 archive all unread messages, close the window going back to the saved position
 restart at 2) for the next most recently unread message,(newer messages that were generated meanwhile)
 restart at 2) for the next previous unread message (older unseen messages)
 invoke a "re-visit" functionality with a configurable timer (game time) to generate a new message with a (different) acoustical signal