I'd like to see a few alerts that are recent even if they've been actioned or visited (like the notifications tab in facebook) in addition to new ones. New ones are highlighted.
That's what the little star next to the time of the alert is, and stays for ten minutes or so after it's been viewed. Other than that I'm not sure what you're referring to after that?
I'd like to see a few alerts that are recent even if they've been actioned or visited (like the notifications tab in facebook) in addition to new ones. New ones are highlighted.
From what I can gather the OP wants to see alerts that have previously been marked as read/actioned still appearing in the dropdown list in addition to new alerts.
Not sure why you would need to see old alerts which you have already seen though.
They do actually stay there for an admin-configurable amount of time. It's set to 3 hours (ie, they will show up for 3 hours after they've been marked as read).