Public bug reported:
"Clear All" works in an unexpected and non unintuitive way when it comes
to calendar entries. Clicking it not only removes all notification
entries from the panel but also all of the calendar entries which in my
opinion is not what most users would expect as normally people wouldn't
want their schedule for the day to just disappear if they just want to
mark notifications as read.
I get it that technically the entries are just persistent notifications
sent by the calendar application but I don't think this is the expected
behavior from the users. Moreover, this is exactly what happens when if
a user switches to any past or future dates in the calendar/notification
panel. The calendar entries for that date are shown but it is not
possible to remove them either individually or by clicking clear all
(disabled). If it makes sense to not remove them for other days, why
would we want to do it for the current day when the schedule is the most
needed. To me it seems like the design is mixing up 2 different concepts
here. A Notification panel and Today's schedule panel.
IMHO, a better design would have been to visually separate list of
unread notifications and list of calendar events for the day like most
operating systems do (macOS, Windows, Android, iOS). At the very least
the clear all button should not touch the calendar entries.
If neither of these are acceptable or doable, perhaps a way to bring
back calendar notification after they are cleared would work.
** Affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
"Clear All" buton should not remove calendar events from the panel
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