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Do Not Disturb ignores Chromium-based browser notifications
Hi, there's this setting:
Although it's turned on, I'm still getting notifications. This confuses me.
Thank You
This is not related to Pop Shell (the window tiling extension), so I'm moving it to the general Pop!_OS repository.
The setting tells GNOME Shell not to pop up notifications in the top-center of the screen (like "silent mode" for your phone.)
It can be toggled through GNOME Control Center (the Settings app) as shown in your screenshot, or at the bottom-left of the calendar/notifications drop-down that's part of GNOME Shell at the top-center of the screen.
So, is it designed to be broken or it's not a question for the POP team?
So, is it designed to be broken
No, it is not "designed to be broken". The kinds of notifications you still receive will be helpful. It suppresses notify-send notifications on my end, so whichever notifications you're seeing might be a different type, coming from a different application.
Ok It's far from ideal that user is unable to decide that under some circumstances it's absolutely not acceptable to get anything shown.
Like, I have to hold a webinar and I'm most likely to get some rubbish shown on the screen,
There needs to be a Don't disturb ON/OFF toggle, and additionally when it's on there's a sub toggle to allow only some apps. I agree that 99% of the time the way it works now is great. The issue is that me being unable to have a simple switch to totally forbid anything shown is making me sad
Yeah, I understand that. I'm asking what applications are sending notifications that are not blocked by DnD mode. Like I said, send-notify, which is a way to test notifications in Gnome, does not display notifications on my machine while DnD mode is active. If you can tell us the names of applications that are not blocked by DnD mode, it would be extremely helpful. If we can confirm that behavior, we can refine and reopen this issue.
In order for us to understand the nature of the bug, we'll have to first be able to understand the nature of the notifications. If you have more info later, please share it with us so that we can investigate effectively.
What is the "nature of the notifications"? I believe that Google Calendar sends me something, Reddit comment or what not...
We need exact details. What browser? What site? What happened that generated the notification?
Chrome or Edge It comes from Google Calendar I think. Or even if someone comments on a Reddit post or similar.
There is an upstream issue in GNOME regarding Chrome/Chromium-based browser notifications: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/2148
We can reopen this issue for tracking purposes and rename it to reflect the issue you were trying to report, but the issue will probably need to be fixed upstream.
Also transferring to our GNOME Shell repo since that is where the upstream issue is located.
Reading more into the upstream issue page I linked, it sounds like the GNOME developers consider this to be a bug in Chromium, since Chromium is marking the notifications as critical (which does sound like incorrect behavior to me.)
There is also a Chromium bug report: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1093556
But Chromium marked it as WontFix and said it's up to the individual websites to flag the notification priorities properly.
My instinct would be that the web browser would be the most logical place to filter for incorrect notification priorities from websites, since the web is much less curated than apps are and it's much easier to browse an incorrectly-coded website than it is to install an incorrectly-coded app. However, I also think it would be good for the DE to allow overriding/ignoring priorities for specific apps at the user's discretion.
In the meantime, I assume you should be able to turn desktop notifications off in Chromium for the websites that use critical priority? (E.g. I don't ever get notifications from Reddit, Google Calendar, etc. in a Chromium-based browser because I deny notification permissions and just use the on-page notification interfaces instead.) You should be able to do this per-site using one of the buttons in the URL bar, or Chrome has global settings where you can also specify specific websites: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3220216