please add the ability to choose which apps can show notifications

[coffeeking]

This is another feature request. It would be neat if mate could turn application's notifications on and off, similar to gnome shell, but much more accessibly than gnome shell. I'd be willing to help implement this once my grasp of c is better.

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[monsta]

Interesting, I didn't know gnome shell has such a feature. So it's like a blacklist to inhibit notifications from selected apps?

[coffeeking]

hi Yup. It's a dialog with a list of apps that show notifications (I'm not sure how this is generated) along with options to manipulate which ones show up on the lock screen. An ability to do this in a display manager agnostic way would be nice, but I don't underlying standards enough to know whether this is easily doable. I suspect not or you guys would have done it already.

monsta wrote:

Interesting, I didn't know gnome shell has such a feature. So it's like a blacklist to inhibit notifications from selected apps?

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[monsta]

Yes, currently I have no idea how to implement this, but we might try it someday :smile:

[aoreucro]

I'm not specifically interested in this feature, but I may be able to provide some useful information ...

Scroll down to "org.freedesktop.Notifications.Notify": https://developer.gnome.org/notification-spec/#commands

The first parameter is the app_name.

In dbus-monitor, this looks like this:

method call time=1482081219.099802 sender=:1.236199 -> destination=org.freedesktop.Notifications serial=18 path=/org/freedesktop/Notifications; interface=org.freedesktop.Notifications; member=Notify
   string "FileZilla"
   uint32 0
   string "filezilla"
   string "Transfers finished"
   string "All files have been successfully transferred"
   array [
   ]
   array [
      dict entry(
         string "category"
         variant             string "transfer.complete"
      )
   ]
   int32 -1

[coffeeking]

hi

This would be a great feature to have. Gnome has this feature, although not all apps support it, but for those that do it's really handy. Windows 10 also has this feature and it works rather well. If this feature does get implemented, I'd suggested a simple list view with check boxes, or maybe a list view with the names of the apps, and if the enter key is pressed a little dialog box opens up, showing a short description, and then an on or off button. Gnome's implementation has some accessibility issues, windows 10's does not. I'm not sure how helpful i can be, but this would be a great feature for mate to have.

On 12/18/2016 11:23 AM, aoreucro wrote:

I'm not specifically interested in this feature, but I may be able to provide some useful information ...

Scroll down to "org.freedesktop.Notifications.Notify": https://developer.gnome.org/notification-spec/#commands

The first parameter is the app_name.

In dbus-monitor, this looks like this:

|method call time=1482081219.099802 sender=:1.236199 -> destination=org.freedesktop.Notifications serial=18 path=/org/freedesktop/Notifications; interface=org.freedesktop.Notifications; member=Notify string "FileZilla" uint32 0 string "filezilla" string "Transfers finished" string "All files have been successfully transferred" array [ ] array [ dict entry( string "category" variant string "transfer.complete" ) ] int32 -1 |

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