Drop obsolete evolution-data-server notify-with-tray override

[Jeremy Bícha]

Impact
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Calendar notifications currently pop up a full app window instead of as a normal notification.

The normal notifications respect the Do Not Disturb setting, but the full app window does not.

Test Case 1
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From Ubuntu Desktop…
1. Add your Google account to GNOME Settings > Online Accounts
2. Add a calendar event to Google Calendar with a notification in advance
3. When it is time for the notification, you should see a GNOME Shell notification. You can click on the notification to see the full Reminders window.

Test Case 2
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From Ubuntu Unity 24.04 LTS…
1. Open a terminal and run this command:
sudo apt install gnome-online-accounts-gtk
2. Close the terminal
3. Add a calendar event to Google Calendar with a notification in advance
4. When it is time for the notification, you should see a notification pop-up. You can click OK on the notification to see the full Reminders window.

What Could Go Wrong
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The ubuntu-settings package is shipped by default with Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Unity, and Edubuntu. Edubuntu is practically the same as Ubuntu Desktop as far as the desktop experience goes with one additional GNOME Shell extension to sort the Show Apps view alphabetically.

This is a small default change that can be easily changed (see Revert instructions below).

I guess this could go bad if someone counts on getting event notifications even though they have turned on Do Not Disturb. I'm sorry but it is intended that Do Not Disturb not show notifications like this.

Other Info
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I believe this override was originally added in 2011 for Unity's benefit LP: #757805
It was also helpful for GNOME in early GNOME 3 days with the unusual messaging tray that was later dropped.

These days, GNOME Shell notifications work well, better than a separate popup window.

Revert to Previous Behavior
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If you prefer the original Ubuntu 24.04 LTS behavior, do one of the following:

1. Run this in a terminal:
gsettings set org.gnome.evolution-data-server.calendar notify-with-tray false

2. Or install Evolution. In ☰ > Edit > Preferences > Calendar and Tasks, turn on "Display Reminder window with notifications"

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

+1 from me, upstream changed the meaning of that config over the years and even renamed the option as described in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-data-server/-/commit/8b178307

Display reminders in notification area _only -> Display Reminders window with _notifications

We don't have reason to avoid notifications, it's a more standard interface

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-settings - 24.10.1

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ubuntu-settings (24.10.1) oracular; urgency=medium

  * Drop obsolete evolution-data-server notify-with-tray override (LP: #2072574)

 -- Jeremy Bícha <email address hidden> Wed, 10 Jul 2024 15:10:54 -0400

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Hello Jeremy, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ubuntu-settings into noble-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-settings/24.04.4 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-noble to verification-done-noble. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-noble. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted ubuntu-settings (24.04.4) for noble have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

network-manager/1.46.0-1ubuntu2 (arm64)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/noble/update_excuses.html#ubuntu-settings

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

All autopkgtests have passed successfully on retry