This is not a close button. It's 'mark as read' for an individual notification, of which there may be many. Not sure if that affects whether we want it bigger or not.

• Mattflaschen-WMF renamed this task from Close button is very small to Mark as read button is very small.Sep 11 2015, 12:18 AM

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Symbol can stay with this size. Button need a bigger size and color when you hover.

@Mattflaschen I don't think it does - although it does raise another issue, which is that it definitely looks like a close button. I expect when clicking on a 'x' for the item to disappear, so perhaps we should use a different icon as well.

Esanders added a subscriber: Pginer-WMF.Sep 11 2015, 12:03 PM

I agree with Esanders that the 'x' icon is confusing, and symbolizes "delete" more strongly than it does "mark as read".

It looks a lot bigger for me (Firefox 40, Debian):

For me the "X" renders as shown by @Esanders, which seems definitely too small.

it does raise another issue, which is that it definitely looks like a close button. I expect when clicking on a 'x' for the item to disappear, so perhaps we should use a different icon as well.

In this context, the user intent is basically closer to "discard" for which the "X" seem to fit. Let's imagine the user has 5 new notifications, and the 2nd one is irrelevant. By discarding the 2nd notification, it will disappear from the highlighted group on top and became part of the greyed out group of notifications at the bottom.

I think that if you are not interested in a notification, clicking the "X" seems to align well with the purpose and other metaphors based on the read/unread status may need for you to figure out what to do to change such status. It is true that you may expect items to disappear, but the item being demoted to a different group seems close enough for not causing much surprise. In any case, it would be great to verify these assumptions by checking current user behaviour.

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Catrope mentioned this in T115419: OOUI widgets for new notification design.Oct 13 2015, 10:59 PM

Change 251315 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mooeypoo):
Make 'x' button in notifications bigger

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/251315

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