[Notifications] Ability to control types of enabled desktop notifications

[tomneedham]

This checkbox decides whether I get native desktop notifications - which is cool. But, in my use case, I really don't want to see every action I perform as a notification on my desktop. If its a received share, and another user changes something, maybe, but actions I perform on my own set of data I dont want to appear as notifications - so basically I have always had this option disabled.

However - getting ownCloud notifications as desktop notifications is awesome, like acept/reject shares, new updates, annoucement etc is AWESOME! I would like to be able to distinguish between them so I can have those enabled, but hide the normal sync activity notifications.

[tomneedham]

Just my thoughts / ideas :)

[SamuAlfageme]

@tomneedham Hm. I think I get it. We should distinguish between two types of notifications:

• Related to server activity -> appear on the "Activity" tab
• Coming from the sync process itself -> link to "Sync Protocol / Not Synced" tabs with different events:
  • Conflicts
  • Errors

Both types get a native notification. You wanna see the ones from the server and filter out the frequency of the latter (e.g. get conflicts and errors but no notification on sync success - right?).

I really don't want to see every action I perform as a notification on my desktop

How's your user experience with this? Do you have examples of which notifications would you like to see less frequently?

And about the OCS' notifications - API does not differentiate types, they're all inside a data array:

{
    "ocs": {
        "meta": {
            "status": "ok",
            "statuscode": 200,
            "message": null,
            "totalitems": "",
            "itemsperpage": ""
        },
        "data": [
            {
                "notification_id": 1,
                "app": "market",
                "user": "admin",
                "datetime": "2018-04-10T08:11:02+00:00",
                "object_type": "templateeditor",
                "object_id": "0.3",
                "subject": "Update for Mail Template Editor to version 0.3 is available.",
                "message": "",
                "link": "http://localhost/index.php/apps/market/#/app/templateeditor",
                "actions": [],
                "icon": ""
            }
        ]
    }
}

However, we could filter out (whitelist) which apps' notifications to display on the activity tab based on the user selection. e.g. Since marketplace was released, being an admin gets you lots of "update the app X" desktop notifications.

[ckamm]

I also think this makes sense. It's purely informational can-be-ignored notifications versus action-needed or critical notifications.

[tomneedham]

@SamuAlfageme correct. There should be two checkboxes, not sure on naming but as you said:

• Server notifications (those shown in the bell)
• Sync protocol notifications