On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Peter Bittner <peter.bitt...@gmx.net> wrote:
> As one of the thousands of victims of Gmail notifications on Ubuntu > Touch I would like to file (or start a discussion on) a suggestion: > > I really don't want to disable notifications in general (and in Gmail > *only*, specifically) just to make my Ubuntu phone more quiet. Yet > still I can't leave it alone for more than a few hours without then > having to cope with a huge list of notifications that I then, of > course, simply clear. Always living the danger of having overlooked > some serious notification that I should have seen (e.g. a text > message, Telegram, whatever). > > What if Ubuntu Touch turned the list of plain notifications into a > categorized list (a list of categories of notification or message > type) intelligently? It could look "normal", as now, for just a few > notifications (say, until 3 of the same type), and turning into > somewhat this when exceeding that limit "acceptable" for a pleasurable > user experience: > > (icon) 21 Emails (Gmail) > (^^^^) (excerpt of the first or last few emails) > --------------------------- > (icon) 109 Messages (Telegram) > (^^^^) (excerpt of the first or last few messages) > --------------------------- > (icon) Honey (text message) > (wife) Please also get some milk at the supermarket > --------------------------- > (icon) Bank Austria Service (text message) > (^^^^) TAN for transaction #6891234: ... > > Alternatively, at least the emails should be grouped in threads, so > the list will grow less fast. I know this is not easily solved given > the fact that notifications are fire-and-forget weapons (at the > moment). But there should be a way to make this happen. > > If you seriously get more than 20-30 message per day displayed on your > phone as notifications you start doing nothing but baby-sit your > Ubuntu Touch device. I don't think this is a good strategy in the long > run. This may seriously backfire in a platform comparison of > <name-your-famous-technology-paper-here> one day. Also, I have the > impression the notification panel starts lagging when I press the > "clear all" link (or what it is) with more than 15 notifications in > the list; it really takes a moment, makes me sometimes tap on the > screen another time. > > Any thoughts on this idea / problem yet to solve? > Peter > All great comments. I will let the design team respond with specifics, but I believe there is a plan to rework the notification center and address many of the issues that you pointed out. > > > 2016-04-09 2:14 GMT+02:00 Francisco Pina Martins: > > Did anyone else notice a "strange" behaviour of Gmail notifications? > > Ever since updatng to OTA10, I now get notified not only for emails on my > > "Primary" inbox, I also get notifications for the "Social", "Promotions", > > "Updates" and "Forums" inboxes. > > This means my phone is almost constantly notifying me of stuff. > > Is this a feature or a bug? If it is a feature, can I revert it somehow? > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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