Notification Overload | Notification Settings

[wmr-trevor]

We are experiencing an issue with the amount of notifications that we receive from GitLive. After only a few days of use, we have found that it is practically unusable due to the overwhelming number of notifications.

As you can see in the attached screenshot, the notifications come up rapidly and can be distracting. Specifically, we find the "Select a Issue to work on" or "You are working on" notifications to be particularly frustrating. We never attach issues to several of our branches and are fully aware of what we are working on when we switch branches. The only time we find these notifications useful is when we are creating a new branch.

We would appreciate it if there was an option to turn off these notifications or customize which notifications we receive. This would make GitLive much more manageable and user-friendly for our team.

Environment:

• Operating System: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
• VsCode: 1.77.3
• GitLive Version: v16.1.5

-- The project sounds awesome with its capabilities and we'll be following updates.

[nbransby]

Hi @wmr-trevor

Sorry for the notification overload! The issue tracker notifications should not be appearing that often, we will address that in the next release.

As a workaround for now you should be able to stop them by disabling the issue tracker integration in the settings:

[wmr-trevor]

Hello @nbransby,

Thanks for the follow up. I tried disabling the issue tracker and the setting doesn't seem to stick. So that in it self might be a new issue. If this seems isolated to me environment do please let me know how I can assist.

I uploaded a minute long screen capture of the behavior. Let me know if you need more information. Screencapture May 1, 2023 8_16 AM.webm

[nbransby]

Thanks for the video @wmr-trevor! We will look into that, it appears it does working if you select "Select issue tracker..." and then select None on the page in your browser

[KyleKing]

I second this request. If VSCode is left open, there is a new notification each time a PR is merged, so there might be 10 notifications where each one is a +1 of how many commits my local branch is behind.

Could the up-to-date and behind notifications be temporary (so that they don't need to be manually closed)? Or possible to turn off entirely (for me they are redundant to the Source Control Sync icon)?

[nbransby]

Hi @KyleKing we'll be expanding the notifications to be more informative than the Source Control Sync icon in the future, letting you know if the changes will merge cleanly or there are conflicts so hopefully you'll want to keep them on but we'll make sure to add an option to disable them too.

[EFHDev]

I second this request. If VSCode is left open, there is a new notification each time a PR is merged, so there might be 10 notifications where each one is a +1 of how many commits my local branch is behind.

Could the up-to-date and behind notifications be temporary (so that they don't need to be manually closed)? Or possible to turn off entirely (for me they are redundant to the Source Control Sync icon)?

Adding to this, there doesnt need to be any PR or commits or anything, Everytime i retab into VSCode it throws another notifacation, that just sticks, until i close it,

[nbransby]

@EFHDev thanks for the extra details, we'll try and get this fixed for the next prerelease

[nbransby]

Adding to this, there doesnt need to be any PR or commits or anything, Everytime i retab into VSCode it throws another notification, that just sticks, until i close it,

@EFHDev Which notification is it specifically you get again every time you retab into VSCode?