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[Bill Filler <bill.filler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Peter Bittner <peter.bittner@xxxxxxx>
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?
>
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