(Option to) Disable notifications on mouse connection

[rugk]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When the computer wakes up from standby or my mouse gets connected (it’s a mouse that can use different devices, i.e. M720), I get a useless notification that my mouse is now powered on.

In addition to the “battery warning” I also always get although my mouse still works and has 20% – these are two notifications that I just constantly (need to) click away.

Describe the solution you'd like This information is of no value. I know, when I move my mouse that it is connected.

Describe alternatives you've considered If you can, maybe set a very low timeout as an alternative? So the message disappears and does not annoy me.

Or find other ways of notifying the user? E.g. the bottom rectangle GNOME displays when you e.g. change your backlight. (It automatically disappears and is not so disruptive as this notification.)

Additional context N/A

[pfps]

Solaar uses standard notifications. A good window manager should have a method for turning off notifications on a per-application basis. In XFCE there is a nice GUI that does this under Settings->Notifications.

[mrtimdog]

Hi, admittedly, I have changed the source to remove this notification too. I also use XFCE and have never got the blocking of solaar notifications to work - it maybe that it doesn't work for any app on my system though!

[pfps]

In XFCE go to the main menu, then Settings -> Notifications. Open the Applications tab and scroll down to the solaar (or maybe Solaar) entry and turn it off.

This won't turn off the notifications that come from xfce4-power-manager. These can be turned off separately in the Notifications app.

[rugk]

Well… I could now say that a good application should only send notifications when something is really noteworthy. And IMHO "mouse connected" is not interesting at all.

So then why don't remove that by default?

[rugk]

Really, I would ask you to reconsider this decision. If people already patch the source code to remove it… :sweat_smile:

Or, otherwise, could you please explain what value a "this mouse is connected" notification has?

If it hbas one, maybe make an option to disable it/make it optional, at least.

[pfps]

See PR #1359 This PR is waiting for confirmation that it doesn't cause other problems.

[rugk]

Awesome!

BTW, one can disable all notifications in GNOME for an app, however, I of course want some notifications from Solaar:

[pfps]

Let me know whether this version of Solaar solves your issue.

[pfps]

@rugk I need an explicit response that this PR has been used and is working.

[rugk]

Ah it's Python, so I can easily tets it, okay, did so and commented there.