Why exactly did the annoying colored lines of notifications (can be anywhere from one to three [1-3] lines of screen real estate that becomes LESS useful) go from a "briefly visible sidebar window which I can then close and REGAIN those three lines of screen real estate"...

...to instead become what looks like a stand-alone pop-up within which I have to:
 1) click to expose the checkboxes;
 2) checkbox EVERY SINGLE GODDAMN ONE OF THEM, one at a time;
 3) click the "mark as read";
and then finally
 4) close that dialog.

?!?!?!?!?!

At the VERY LEAST, there could be an included "check all?" box at the top?



Robert Kirk
Rockville, MD