Action to close visible notifications only

[ouuan]

The close_all action closes all notifications regardless of their visibility. When there are more than notification_limit notifications, I often want to close only the visible ones, so that I can read the hidden ones before closing them.

[zappolowski]

For a similar use case (selectively closing some notifications) I've implemented an new DBus method to list currently displayed notifications (see #1348). Using this one (without any filter) should do what you need, or?

[bynect]

I don't think this is easily portable to click actions. Maybe with a custom script. But adding a close_displayed doesn't sound too unreasonable.

[zappolowski]

I misinterpreted the term action to be the context of dunstctl which has the close-all action already, but there's also close_all as an action on notifications itself, which was probably meant.

Sure, adding close_displayed there as well is a possible solution. I'm just a bit concerned about adding too many "custom" actions, when similar functionality is already present somewhere else (DBus/dunstctl in this case).

E.g. the close_all action could just be a script which calls dunstctl close-all. When the DBus interface becomes more expressive (e.g. dunstctl close-all --displayed) this would be immediately available for mouse actions as well (or just with minor adjustments to a script).

[bynect]

E.g. the close_all action could just be a script which calls dunstctl close-all. When the DBus interface becomes more expressive (e.g. dunstctl close-all --displayed) this would be immediately available for mouse actions as well (or just with minor adjustments to a script).

doesn't sound bad.

I'm just a bit concerned about adding too many "custom" actions, when similar functionality is already present somewhere else (DBus/dunstctl in this case).

Maybe we can add the possibility (in v2) for users to create custom actions (without the need to create a script).