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Figure 5-43: A grouped soft notification. The height of the window is dynamic and
depends on the number of lines in the list.
Discarding soft notifications
The application that launched a soft notification can discard it without user
intervention when the notification becomes obsolete. A soft notification should
remain pending until the user has responded to it, or started using the corresponding
application so that in effect the notification becomes obsolete. In that case the
application can discard the notification even though the user may not have actually
seen it.
When the user reacts to a soft notification by pressing the right softkey (for example
Read), or selects one item of a grouped soft notification, the item becomes
interpreted as obsolete, and will not reappear. If a soft notification contained more
than one item, the other ones remain pending and reappear when the user returns to
idle.
The user can dismiss the notification by pressing the right softkey, labeled Exit. After
this, the notification does not reappear until new events cause a new notification to
be created. In case of a grouped soft notification, all items it contains are discarded.
Many simultaneous soft notifications
Soft notifications are stacked in case there is more than one pending at a time: after
the topmost one is discarded, the one following it will be displayed. Each notification
has a priority value that determines the order of the notifications.
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