[Issue] Song change notifications build up in sidebar notification list

[b4shful]

• I have read the Usage and the Troubleshooting pages of the wiki Yessir
• I have made sure that both my config and system packages are up to date Yep

• Linux distro: Arch Linux

  The issue

  When using Spotify (via spotify-launcher from Arch official repos), the song change notifications build up in the notification list in the sidebar. I have replicated this with other music players.

To be clear, the timeout (disappearing from the center of the screen) works fine, and it's probably the desired behaviour for most notifications, but specifically for song change notifications it can be very annoying as they stack up in the sidebar. Like so:

Interestingly, closing any one of the song change notifications from the sidebar then closes ALL song change notifications from all music apps.

[l4v3nx]

disable this setting in spotify's settings

[b4shful]

disable this setting in spotify's settings

@l4v3nx Ah apologies, I wasn't clear in my original post. My issue is not with the existence of the notifications I'm aware they can be turned off in individual music player's settings. The notifications are fine actually, and they go off screen within a few seconds. I would like to keep this brief few second "pop up". The issue is that when they disappear from the main screen, they still remain in the sidebar.

I think for most people the expected behaviour of a song change notification in particular would be that it briefly appears on screen, and then disappears completely (including from the sidebar). Otherwise you get dozens of "unread" notifications appearing in the sidebar when listening to music.

[l4v3nx]

isn't this the intented behaviour? i guess something can be done with notification importance in code to show them as pop up but don't save in sideright window, but I'm not sure if these applications use "quiet" notifications (or whatever they are) to make any changes possible. at this moment i can suggest you to use another notification daemon such as mako (but you won't see notification history in sideright window at all)