GNOME values ​​options to improve its notification center

GNOME Notifications Concept

GNOME Notifications Concept

Last Friday May 10 o of a new generation notification system that will come from the hand of Plasma 5.16. The work being done by the KDE Community will result in a renewed experience in all things related to notifications from operating systems such as Kubuntu. On the other hand, we have today's news that ensures that GNOME Project he's doing something similar, but focusing on a specific point.

If you look at the or services At the head of this article, it is clear that GNOME notifications, as well as standard Ubuntu ones, can look much better and display more information. More specifically, we are talking about GNOME ShellNotification, also known as the notification center in other operating systems, which is where the notification history is kept in GNOME. From this center we can also access the controls of multimedia applications, calendar, etc. Currently it is something simple but, from what it seems, its simplicity has its days numbered.

GNOME Shell Notification will show more information

The GNOME Project Design Team is working so that your notification center shows more information and the calendar will be joined, or that is what you are thinking about right now, a view of the day, among which we will have upcoming events, the weather and all kinds of grouped notifications.

Notifications concept 2

Another of the concepts in which they are working is simpler, but in it you can see a switch to activate a Do Not Disturb mode which is supposed to silence all kinds of notifications. That it offers less information can also mean, or at least I have that impression, that we can click on the widgets and they will take us to a specific application. In any case, we are talking about concepts where only their design has been imagined, so talking about functions is mere speculation.

GNOME 3 Notifications Concept

The third and last concept they are working on seems to me to be the one that is least likely to be chosen. I think this way because it is about single row and in Ubuntu we already have two. But the fact that it has a column does not mean that it will show less information: this concept has the Notifications and Agenda tabs from which we will access everything that interests us.

When will the new notification center arrive?

Es impossible to know. If we remember what has happened with some changes in the past, the return of Ubuntu to GNOME had been planned for 6 months before its official arrival. With this I mean that, if information has not yet appeared, we can almost rule out that it will reach the Eoan Ermine that will be released in October of this year. Being optimistic, we can think that it will come from the hand of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, but it cannot be ruled out that its final landing will be even later.

Which of the three concepts do you like the most?


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  1.   Julito-kun said

    What keeps squeaking to me is that the clock area is used to show notifications, it is totally anti-intuitive. Why not leave the clock for the calendar and events and a dedicated button (i) for notifications?
    And for asking ... is there an extension that does what I say?

  2.   Christian Echeverry said

    Well, I really like the first option, and that the notifications are interactive, some are only there without doing anything functional.