Cannot quickly navigate to end of list

[bkjohnson]

With rofication, I could open my notifications and use the up arrow to quickly go to the end of the list to see my most recent notifications. This doesn't seem possible with ilia. If I want to get to the most recent notifications I might have to press down a dozen times or more.

Is this functionality that is planned to be added?

[kgilmer]

Hi @bkjohnson , the ilia UI has a filter box followed by the list of entries. When at the top element, when pressing up, this causes focus to return to the filter box. I think it would be a UX regression to change this behavior. what would your ideal experience be?

1. A specific key to navigate to the end of the list
2. A persistent setting to change the sort direction of notifications
3. A transient setting (key binding) to toggle the sort direction of notifications
4. something else? ______

[sanyatuning]

Hi @kgilmer, I say 1 and 2 both would be nice

1. Use the home and end keys to navigate in the list
2. Some settings to change the sort direction here: https://github.com/regolith-linux/ilia/blob/main/src/notifications/RoficationPage.vala#L81

Note: page up and down keys only work if you are on the list. When you open it first you need to go one down before you can use the page down key

[kgilmer]

I was unable to get home/end into 2.2 unfortunately..

Note: page up and down keys only work if you are on the list. When you open it first you need to go one down before you can use the page down key

This has been fixed however. In 2.2 you can directly hit pgdown.

[bkjohnson]

Sorry for the delayed response. To answer your earlier question, I think an ideal experience for me would be a specific key to navigate to the end and when I dismiss a notification, move focus to the one immediately above rather than sending me all the way back to the top of the list.

My use case involves sometimes leaving notifications in the ilia dialog even though I've "read" them so that they act as reminders until I'm actually ready to dismiss them. So if I get some new notifications when I already have a few stacked up I have to go all the way down to the bottom of the list (pgdown makes it faster) to see them, and if I dismiss one I'm taken to the top and have to go back down to the bottom again if there were other more recent notifications I want to see.

[kgilmer]

Thanks @bkjohnson , your workflow is perfectly clear. I'll keep this in mind.