It would be a massive usability improvement if the notifications list could be made to not close when you click on a notification in there. Since the list works so nicely with the content next to it, without interfering while open or closing when you interact with the thread area, this would be great. I want to click on a notification and have it load without the list closing and with it removing all new-highlights, which is really bad design anyway. So this would solve two problems in one act. The removing of the highlights should only happen if you close the list manually by clicking on the bell, if at all. (Ideally there should be a kind of mark-as-read button.)