Shell notifications has an unclear explanation of Do Not Disturb
In gnome-help/C/shell-notifications.page, the documentation explains how to hide notifications. At the moment, it incorrectly says, as an alternative to using the Do Not Disturb switch in the Shell UI, to open Settings / Notifications, and…
- Switch
Do Not Disturb
to off.
Instead, it should say to switch Do Not Disturb to on.
In addition, I find the following explanation of the behaviour difficult to parse:
When switched off, most notifications will not pop up at the top of the screen. Notifications will still be available in the notification list when you display it (by clicking on the clock, or by pressing Super+V), and they will start popping up again when you switch the switch back to on.
There are a few problems here:
- The phrase "when switched off" is unclear given that the last several paragraphs have been devoted to an alternative method of switching Do Not Disturb to on.
- This is exacerbated because "most notifications will not pop up" is a vague statement.
- Finally, "switch the switch" is a weird statement, in part because we have just gone into some length about how there are two different switches one can switch to enable Do Not Disturb.