Card refinements

plugins/notifications/api/routes.py

@@ -897,10 +897,16 @@ def dashboard_active():
     out = []
     for row in rows:
         notificationtype = getattr(row, 'notificationtype', None)
+        text = (row.notification or '').strip()
         out.append({
             'notificationid': row.notificationid,
-            'message': (row.notification or '').strip()[:120],
-            'typename': notificationtype.typename if notificationtype else None,
+            # Trimmed for the card, whole text for the tooltip. A notification
+            # is prose written for the floor, so the first hundred characters
+            # are usually enough to recognise which one it is, and the rest is
+            # there when it is not.
+            'message': text[:100] + ('...' if len(text) > 100 else ''),
+            'fullmessage': text,
+            'typename': notificationtype.typename if notificationtype else 'Notification',
             'endtime': row.endtime.isoformat() + 'Z' if row.endtime else None,
         })
     return success_response(out)

plugins/notifications/plugin.py

@@ -211,11 +211,15 @@ class NotificationsPlugin(BasePlugin):
                 'severity': 'info',
                 'empty': 'hide',
                 'position': 60,
+                # Stacked, not inline: the type is a label and the message is
+                # prose. On one line the type gets truncated to make room for
+                # text that then gets truncated anyway, and neither is
+                # readable.
+                'layout': 'stacked',
                 'map': {
                     'title': 'typename',
                     'detail': 'message',
-                    'meta': [{'key': 'endtime', 'label': 'until',
-                              'format': 'date'}],
+                    'detailtooltip': 'fullmessage',
                     'link': '/notifications/{notificationid}',
                 },
             },