Notifications accumulate in indicator

[janxkoci]

Prerequisites

• I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates.

Describe the bug

Some weeks ago there was an apparent change in the behavior of my notifications, without me changing any settings, so I think it's a bug. All notifications end up in the indicator list, regardless if I interact with them or not - even if I click notification to open an app (this works with some apps sometimes, like AppCenter, Files, or Mail), the notification will still hang out in the notification indicator later. Same for chat apps (made with Webpin) or any other. Every day I find old notifications collected there, for emails I already replied to or updates I already installed.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Trigger a notification (e.g. copy a file in Files and unfocus the app, i.e. switch focus to other app)
2. Click the notification bubble that appears to focus the app again
3. Look at the notification indicator - there is a bange
4. Open indicator - the notification is there

Expected behavior

After interacting with notification bubble, it should not land in the indicator.

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Platform Information

This happens on multiple laptops, here is one:

• I'm using the latest version from git that I've manually compiled
• I'm using the latest released stable version

Additional context

[MorbidShell]

Not sure if this is related or should be seperate bug or even if it's intended, but:

Notifications used to clear automatically if you focused the app that had a notification.
Example of use before: Terminal completes an action like apt update while unfocused. It has a message about the completed action in the notification center, but the message in the notification center cleared automatically if you focused the app in question, even if you didn't open the notification center.

Currently the messages stay, even though you focused the app.

[janxkoci]

Well for me all notifications get into the indicator and stay there, until I explicitly clear them with one of the buttons in the indicator. I currently see no other way to clear them, as was the case in the past. So I think your case is part of the bug I'm describing here.

[guiscaranse]

I am also having a similar issue, I don't even care a lot about notifications being accumulated on the indicator, the problem is if it accumulates a lot of notifications it gets slow and crashes. Maybe allow users to set a lifespan for notifications?

[janxkoci]

I think it should do the right thing - if I interact with a notification, don't put it in the drawer in indicator and instead clear it. You know, like your phone does.

[yozachar]

Yea, I was just about to open an issue: "Forget old notifications"

This behaviour is persistent across restarts.

[JMoerman]

Even if an app withdraws a notification, or replaces a notification the old notification remains. It seems like the latter will get fixed when this lands: #135

[danirabbit]

Replaces is now supported, so closing in favor of #204 and #228 which are more specific

[janxkoci]

This bug was mostly about notifications that should never end up in the indicator (e.g. when I click on them and open the app, or when I disable indicator notifications per app in the settings), which is still happening on my machine. The other reports don't mention such issue at all 😕

[Marukesu]

This bug was mostly about notifications that should never end up in the indicator (e.g. when I click on them and open the app, or when I disable indicator notifications per app in the settings)…

The first case was fixed in #243 (available since version 7.0 of the indicator), the second case in elementary/notifications#211 (available since version 7.0.1 or the server).

[janxkoci]

How do I find the version of an indicator? I cannot find any in the Appcenter.

And I have these settings but I still see Appcenter updates in the indicator every day:

[Marukesu]

How do I find the version of an indicator? I cannot find any in the Appcenter.

You can use dpkg-query -Wf '${Version}\n' wingpanel-indicator-notifications.

And I have these settings but I still see Appcenter updates in the indicator every day

i cannot reproduce this here, can you look at the contents of gsettings list-recursively io.elementary.notifications.applications:/io/elementary/notifications/applications/appcenter/ and check that remember is set to false, also, if there's isn't a cached appcenter notification in $XDG_CACHE_HOME/.notifications.session.

[janxkoci]

@Marukesu Ah, that's the package name? I expected RDNN so I was looking for io.elementary.wingpanel* 😅

My version is 7.0.0+r843+pkg35~ubuntu7.1.

$ gsettings list-recursively io.elementary.notifications.applications:/io/elementary/notifications/applications/appcenter/
io.elementary.notifications.applications ask true
io.elementary.notifications.applications bubbles true
io.elementary.notifications.applications remember true
io.elementary.notifications.applications sounds true

and

$ $XDG_CACHE_HOME/.notifications.session
bash: /.notifications.session: Adresář nebo soubor neexistuje

Translation: "Directory or file does not exist". It might be because my indicator is currently empty..

[janxkoci]

After the latest batch of updates and several reboots, I no longer see Appcenter notifications in the indicator. I will keep watching it and report back if I see something out of line.