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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <2037588@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your report.

On 2023-09-27 21:43, Joe-xenotropic wrote:
> 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.

I'm currently on 22.04, and I see a button whose label is "Clear"
(admittedly not "Clear List") at the bottom of the window to the right
of the "Do Not Disturb" switch. Do you see the same?

> More generally the concern here is that I can't find functionality
> to clear either one notification or all of them.

If you hover a notification, a 'X' button shows up at the top right, and
you can click it to clear that particular notification. Or click the
"Clear" button to clear them all.

> 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.

TBH I'm not enough familiar with the feature to tell.

But please note that the feature is a GNOME one, and if you would like
to suggest improvements to it, I would recommend that you submit a
wishlist issue here:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues

Ubuntu is a distribution which uses GNOME, and changing the behavior of
the notification feature is not likely to happen on the distro level.

** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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

Title:
  Instructions for clearing notifications not accurate

Status in ubuntu-docs package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

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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