Cannot turn off notifications

[Joel J. Adamson]

This is a "should."

When deja-dup starts a backup, it pops up a notification telling me that it's starting. When deja-dup finishes a backup, it produces a notification saying "Backup completed." This notification tells me very little useful information. Unless I clear it the notifications pile up in the notification area of the desktop: I end up with twenty little safe icons in the corner ;) This is at best undesirable: if I'm away from my desk for a few days it makes a mess out of the notification area. A more useful message would tell me when there's a problem. No notification is necessary when everything goes well.

Perhaps there are situations unlike mine (daily incremental backups) where these notifications are useful; however, the default behavior should be no notification, but ultimately users should be able to decide if they want the notifications.

Distribution:
Fedora 16

Gnome 3.2

Kernel:
Linux 3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64 x86_64 x86_64

Versions:
deja-dup-20.1-1.fc16.x86_64
duplicity-0.6.14-1.fc16.x86_64

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

I'm inclined to agree that daily backups + notifications aren't helpful. But any other setting (weekly, monthly) and I think they should be on. Perhaps instead of a preference for this, we just disable them when daily backups are enabled...

[typo (gnomeuser8)]

If I print something I get an notification when printing starts and when it finishes, but the notification is completely gone after some seconds. If I use Déjà Dup the notification stays in the bottom notification panel the whole time I use my desktop. So the most time I use my desktop Déjà Dup is the only application in the bottom notification panel.

[Simon Law (sfllaw)]

+1

A transitory notification is best. Pop up the "Backup completed" message and then dismiss it after a few seconds.

[m grachten (m-grachten)]

I agree with Simon. When I have a backup schedule, I only need a (persistent) notification if something abnormal happened. If I don't see any deja-dup notification (after being absent for a longer time), that implies the backup(s) succeeded.

In other words, the same amount of information can be transmitted with less notifications.

[Robert Buchholz (rbu)]

For daily backups, a started/completed backup should generate no notification at all. A delayed backup (for instance, because you are in a different wireless network and your backup server not reachable over the internet) should only create a permanent warning after it has been delayed for "too long" (next day?)

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

I’m closing this because (a) we are now more careful to always replace existing status notifications so that they don’t stack up and (b) you can turn off notifications in gnome settings.

[João Pimentel (joao-pimentel-ferreira)]

Why are you closing this? I have daily backups and I get a popup everyday directly from déjà-dup referring that some files in /etc were not backed up. Please allow us to turn off any warnings and popups.

[Sami Pietila (sampie)]

I have Ubuntu 21.10 and also get these notifications message daily. Where do I find the setting to turn the messages off?

[Sami Pietila (sampie)]

I think I found it. Settings -> Notifications -> Backups -> Notifications = Off.