Ok, so I have managed to work around the issue by filtering by subject
in gmail instead of "from" and "to" fields. I just applied the email
filters I had in thunderbird to gmail (which were already based on subject).
My phone is once again quiet, and notifications are useful once more.
Cheers,
Francisco
PS - Example filter: *Subject:* "*[Ubuntu-phone]*". "Skip inbox
(Archive)" *and* "Apply label Ubuntu-touch".
I hope it helps others in the same situation.
On 19-04-2016 21:34, Bill Filler wrote:
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Peter Bittner <peter.bitt...@gmx.net
<mailto:peter.bitt...@gmx.net>> wrote:
As one of the thousands of victims of Gmail notifications on Ubuntu
Touch I would like to file (or start a discussion on) a suggestion:
I really don't want to disable notifications in general (and in Gmail
*only*, specifically) just to make my Ubuntu phone more quiet. Yet
still I can't leave it alone for more than a few hours without then
having to cope with a huge list of notifications that I then, of
course, simply clear. Always living the danger of having overlooked
some serious notification that I should have seen (e.g. a text
message, Telegram, whatever).
What if Ubuntu Touch turned the list of plain notifications into a
categorized list (a list of categories of notification or message
type) intelligently? It could look "normal", as now, for just a few
notifications (say, until 3 of the same type), and turning into
somewhat this when exceeding that limit "acceptable" for a pleasurable
user experience:
(icon) 21 Emails (Gmail)
(^^^^) (excerpt of the first or last few emails)
---------------------------
(icon) 109 Messages (Telegram)
(^^^^) (excerpt of the first or last few messages)
---------------------------
(icon) Honey (text message)
(wife) Please also get some milk at the supermarket
---------------------------
(icon) Bank Austria Service (text message)
(^^^^) TAN for transaction #6891234: ...
Alternatively, at least the emails should be grouped in threads, so
the list will grow less fast. I know this is not easily solved given
the fact that notifications are fire-and-forget weapons (at the
moment). But there should be a way to make this happen.
If you seriously get more than 20-30 message per day displayed on your
phone as notifications you start doing nothing but baby-sit your
Ubuntu Touch device. I don't think this is a good strategy in the long
run. This may seriously backfire in a platform comparison of
<name-your-famous-technology-paper-here> one day. Also, I have the
impression the notification panel starts lagging when I press the
"clear all" link (or what it is) with more than 15 notifications in
the list; it really takes a moment, makes me sometimes tap on the
screen another time.
Any thoughts on this idea / problem yet to solve?
Peter
All great comments. I will let the design team respond with specifics,
but I believe there is a plan to rework the notification center and
address many of the issues that you pointed out.
2016-04-09 2:14 GMT+02:00 Francisco Pina Martins:
> Did anyone else notice a "strange" behaviour of Gmail notifications?
> Ever since updatng to OTA10, I now get notified not only for
emails on my
> "Primary" inbox, I also get notifications for the "Social",
"Promotions",
> "Updates" and "Forums" inboxes.
> This means my phone is almost constantly notifying me of stuff.
> Is this a feature or a bug? If it is a feature, can I revert it
somehow?
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