GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 455250
Notification balloon should be optional
Last modified: 2009-11-22 23:24:44 UTC
I find the notification balloons annoying. They're kind of redundant because the icon shows the status anyway. Please may we have an option to turn them off. A simple "hidden" gconf setting would be enough to keep me happy.
Created attachment 91834 [details] [review] Adds option to disable non-critical notification balloons This is a "hidden" gconf option with key /apps/NetworkManagerApplet/no_popups. Critical notifications are still shown; only normal and low urgency popups are disabled.
I wrote a new version of the patch and submitted it to bugs.debian.org. This version adds a button to the notification balloon to disable further notifications. Please could you consider incorporating it and adding translations.
Created attachment 114417 [details] [review] Adds gconf option and button in balloon to disable further notifications
need to get this ported to 0.7. I'd suggest "Show notifications" as the menu item, and "disable_notifications" as the GConf key. Thanks!
*** Bug 555716 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 123239 [details] [review] Adds an option to disable connected notifications in nm-applet 0.7 This version applies only to the connection established notifications. A single option "disable-connected-notifications" applies to all types of connection. As version 0.7 has gained a "Don't show this again" option/button for when wireless networks become available I've written my option the same way, not bothering with a menu item or gconf schema.
fixed in applet svn r1046, thanks!
So how exacly can I get it in Ibex? I hava 0.7.0 applet, and I can see popup every time I login.
What SVN revision is your NM 0.7.0 applet based off of? If it's based off of something earlier than r1046, and hasn't had the patch backported, you won't have this. Talk to the Ubuntu maintainer and get them to backport the patch if you like.
Did the patch actually make it to release? I'm using 0.7.1 (in Debian unstable) and there's no trace of the option to disable the popups.
We have GConf schemas now (so you can easily find out the keys you need to set), so you can certainly turn off the balloons if you like with GConf keys. It's not exposed in the UI as checkbox or anything since the people who care can figure out how to turn it off, distros like Fedora and Ubuntu customize the schema themselves, and it's not an option you use more than once and thus shouldn't be in a top-level menu. So I think we're OK?
Hate to say, but those notifications are pretty annoying to the unwashed masses, too. Can you give a step-by-step for turning them off, for those of us who don't know anything about gconf or schemas or backporting patches? It would be much appreciated- thanks!
gconftool-2 --set --type bool /apps/nm-applet/disable-connected-notifications true gconftool-2 --set --type bool /apps/nm-applet/disable-disconnected-notifications true It doesn't seem to be working in Ubuntu currently :-(.
Ubuntu has some custom patches for NetworkManager notifications. You may want to file a bug in launchpad to ensure that the custom Ubuntu patches are not interfering with the normal notification disable ability.
It's already been filed at <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/445872>. It looks like they don't want to fix it unless/until you accept their patches; but why would you if they're broken?