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[Joe-xenotropic <2037588@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

This bug is about this page

https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/shell-notifications.html.en

under the heading "The notification list", and specifically the text
"Click the Clear List button to empty the list of notifications."

>From the text of the page I infer that "clear list" button would somehow
be visible if I press Super+V or possibly click on a notification after
I press Super+V. In 23.04 there is no "Clear List" button in either of
those places. So that very specifically seems wrong.

More generally the concern here is that I can't find functionality to
clear either one notification or all of them. They just seem to pile up.
Normal OS functionality in 2023 is to distinguish between "notifications
the user has dismissed" and "notifications the user still needs to deal
with" and I don't see that in Ubuntu. I can't tell if I'm missing
something, or Ubuntu is just missing that functionality. I would hope
the "Notifications and the notification list" page would inform me more
on which is the case.

** Affects: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2037588

Title:
  Instructions for clearing notifications not accurate

Status in ubuntu-docs package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This bug is about this page

  https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/shell-notifications.html.en

  under the heading "The notification list", and specifically the text
  "Click the Clear List button to empty the list of notifications."

  From the text of the page I infer that "clear list" button would
  somehow be visible if I press Super+V or possibly click on a
  notification after I press Super+V. In 23.04 there is no "Clear List"
  button in either of those places. So that very specifically seems
  wrong.

  More generally the concern here is that I can't find functionality to
  clear either one notification or all of them. They just seem to pile
  up. Normal OS functionality in 2023 is to distinguish between
  "notifications the user has dismissed" and "notifications the user
  still needs to deal with" and I don't see that in Ubuntu. I can't tell
  if I'm missing something, or Ubuntu is just missing that
  functionality. I would hope the "Notifications and the notification
  list" page would inform me more on which is the case.

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