I'm not sure why people enable any notifications on their desktop in the first place.
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To be notified of things that they want to know about.
"You are technically correct."
"The BEST kind of correct."
And even notifications they don't want to know about for free!
GNOME lets you block notifications on a per application basis.
Whenever I start a game on my KDE desktop, the notifications get muted automatically. I have no idea why, because I really don't remember setting it up. Maybe it's a standard feature that was added at some point. It's honestly pretty great though.
KDE turns on do not disturb mode when a program is in full screen mode by default.
You can test this by binding DnD to a button (preferable Meta key + unused letter like F), opening a program in full screen mode and toggling DnD.
This feature can be disabled in settings.
Is meta the official term for that key? I always called it the super key. Just curious
Only KDE calls it "meta". Everywhere else it's either "super" or "mod4". The left Alt is sometimes called "meta" or "mod1".
It's not just kde, for example the backronym for Emacs is "esc meta alt ctrl shift"
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From what I can see online the key is actually called the super key, but for some reason KDE Plasma calls it Meta on my device
Might be because Iβm on a MacBook
I think it's a default. It also tells me how many notifications I missed after closing the game.
I see you stopped playing because your game crashed.
You got 76 notifications in the 20 hours you were playing. Take a shower, drink some water, and get some sleep you slacker.I usually like being notified of messages in certain chats. But even with that I'd like to be able to choose which chats are allowed to disturb me no matter what and which ones should make noise but not that damn much!
I believe the notifications for donation on my KDE laptop (running Bazzite) are yearly so... hopefully you won't be seeing it often
Recent versions of KDE also automatically enable Do Not Disturb mode whenever you launch a full-screen window so you won't get interrupted by a notification anyway! Honestly surprised GNOME doesn't do that as well.
They do.
It's easy to test with notify-send test, and yeah GNOME does block notifications while fullscreen applications are open. I wonder how that notification went through, maybe gamescope isn't properly registering the fullscreen application or it's x11 wine being the problem.
My guess is they are using this:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1610/fullscreen-notifications/
I was also puzzling over this for a bit... I use Bazzite GNOME on a Deck, and I can't recall ever getting a GNOME notification while in fullscreen anything, video or videogame, launched in desktop mode, and certainly never in the 'game mode' (I believe that is when gamescope is active, right? at least with the Deck variant of Bazzite?).
But yeah anyway, this is my guess, the user manually installed this extension and is apparently annoyed that it is doing its intended function.
... Either that, or... maybe they're using a ... somewhat to moderately out of date version of GNOME?
Don't be a loser with no defuser!
Nevermind the donation pop-up, how can people use gnome? It's unusable, it interface is literally the worse UI I've ever had the displeasure of using only second to macOS.
I believe that gnome is actually what is keeping many people away from gnu/linux, since it's default on many distros, people install "linux" and they get gnome and gnome sucks so they hate on linux instead of hating gnome.
I use it and like it. No strong opinion here, it just works well for me.
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Well, I use it, I like it, and I can confidently say it's not for everyone
You gotta think the gnome way. Like, for example, I don't feel the absence of the minimize button because I adopted gnome's workspace-based flow
It doesn't get in my way, I don't even feel its existence most of the time. Gnome 3 sucked and definitely got in my way but beware that I am talking about gnome 4x here.
Context: I'm an i3 and plasma user depenending on my machine with one exception.
I find Gnome to be in the way 100% of the time, until I put the mist and konquer down and start using the touchscreen. Its a nice DE for touch oriented devices, but it really sucks to navigate with moist and keybread imho.
Edit: the one time I don't fix my spelling someone comes along and says something. I'm gonna make it worse π
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GNOME alone is like 60% of the reason why stock Ubuntu and all of its derivatives suck. It's like a mashup of ChromeOS and MacOS, two of the most god awful UX designs this past decade.
Compiz by itself kicks GNOME out of the water, despite it being a now legacy compositor from 2007.
Most annoyingly, even RPM distros like Fedora offer it as default, despite having a fully supported KDE option right there, along with any other DE that you might want like XFCE, LXQt, Cinnamon, MATE, etc.
I don't completely hate MacOS, it's pretty nice IMO.
GNOME instantly gets replaced by KDE Plasma though. With Cosmic also installed for some fun alpha testing.
What distro? I've been using GNOME on Ubuntu and Debian for the past five years and I don't recall ever seeing a donation notification.
That is because it's new to gnome 49, debian and Ubuntu aren't bleeding edge to have them
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Just use Linux Mint.
π Looks like you're trying to hold B! Would you like help with that?
Arch user here who enjoys Gnome because I started my Linux journey over a decade ago with Ubuntu. Tell me which desktop environment I should be using. Which desktop environment will make me question why Iβve spent so much time with Gnome?
If Gnome has worked for you the past ten years then keep using it.
KDE Plasma
GNOME is a great desktop environment. Ignore the people here who are whining; there's always a bunch in any DE-related Linux post, regardless of the DE being discussed.
But, just to add to the discussion, KDE is the only real alternative as far as feature parity is concerned (that isn't just a fork).
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