Bug 490322 - Notification spam filling up PC screen every time phone connects
Summary: Notification spam filling up PC screen every time phone connects
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 411753
Alias: None
Product: kdeconnect
Classification: Applications
Component: common (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Albert Vaca Cintora
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Reported: 2024-07-15 19:17 UTC by kde
Modified: 2024-07-31 23:46 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description kde 2024-07-15 19:17:51 UTC
SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Have a bunch of old notifications on your phone (including seen, silent and grouped notifications, eg 20 boosts/favorites on Mastodon)
2. Have your phone connect to the same network as your paired PC


OBSERVED RESULT
When my phone connects to the network, suddenly a column of notifications fills up a whole column on my PC screen for minutes at a time. I can't easily dismiss >1 at a time. I can't see through them. Given they're all on the phone I've had with me all day, I've generally seen them all already or they're silent notifications I've deliberately set android not to notify me of. I just have to wait until it's finished before I can continue using my PC.

EXPECTED RESULT
When first connecting, I don't expect to see any notifications pop up on my computer other than maybe a single "Your $DEVICE connected" type notification. When *new* notifications from my phone come in, I expect to see those and only those. To be clear, all the notifications being shown are things I would want to see show up, but only when they first came in, not if they're hours/days/weeks old, just because my phone just connected.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE Neon
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.3
Qt Version: 6.7

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This behavior has been universal across many different Linux OS's and KDEconnect versions since KDEconnect was first released.
Comment 1 cwo 2024-07-31 23:46:32 UTC
Thank you for the bug report! This issue has already been filed; please follow the linked bug report for updates on a fix.

Some users in that bug report say that an update to the KDE Connect Android app fixed this issue for them; if you are on an older version  (and using Android) please consider testing this; and if you can still reproduce it with the new version please add a comment to that bug giving more information.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 411753 ***