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appimaged 587 on Ubuntu 20.20 shows "Added 3 application" notification on startup
Every time I log into Gnome, I get the notification "Added 3 applications". This is confusing. I didn't add any apps recently, what does it mean that apps were added?
This can be reproduced by running systemctl --user restart appimaged.service
If I added a new app, that could be interesting, but I'm getting the notification even when nothing has been changed on my system.
Filename: appimaged-587-x86_64.AppImage
At each start of appimaged, it scans the well-known locations for AppImages and integrates any it can find into the system. So the message is completely normal.
With "added", we mean "added to the menu"/"integrated into the system". Do you think it should be worded differently?
When a user reads the message "Added 3 applications", the information is that something has been added, that something has changed. But if nothing has changed on my system, I shouldn't get notified. When a new application was added, then this notification can be valuable. But a user currently gets the notification each time they boot up their system, without them having changed anything on the system.
Maybe a improved way would be to show the notification only if a new application has been added. So appimaged keeps track of the installed applications, and if a new one has been added, show a notification.
Also the name of the added application would be nice to know for the user, to get a better feel what has been changed. Like "Added application $x" or something like this.
Also there is currently a second notification after the "Added 3 applications", that says "Added application".
When a user reads the message "Added 3 applications", the information is that something has been added
Maybe we should simply not show any of those directly following the start of appimaged. Only show them later on.
Also there is currently a second notification after the "Added 3 applications", that says "Added application".
Yes, this is something that is annoying indeed, but I could not yet find out how to prevent this from occuring.
It would be nice to avoid the notification on startup and only notify when new apps are integrated after the system has started. I've tried to achieve similar result by adding -q to the service file but with no success.
Hi,
This isn't just about notifications. The desktop files in .local/share/applications are also updated at each boot (their timestamps are updated).
