Created attachment 7770 Example gtkrc theme to demonstrate deisred effect Greetings, I hope this report finds you well. Please let me know if it is not in your preferred format - this is my first time around here. I was referred over from #xfce I screenshare a lot and have messaging clients aplenty. I also happen to enjoy my XFCE notifications, but I do not want the body of messages from these notifications to be revealed in notifications. The desired effect I was after was something similar to "Hide sensitive content" on newer Android/iOS phones, where the title of the application and its respective active buttons are showed on the notification toaster but NOT the contents of the notification. So for example, "Gmail" but without any indication in the body as to what the email was about. I have attached here a theme with a gtkrc file (forgive me, version of xfce4-notify I am running does not support gtk3 css theme) that demonstrates this by hiding the body text. So far I have been using this without issue on native and snap applications. This seems to me like an enhancement that may benefit others. Please let me know what you think. Cheers
Created attachment 7771 Screenshot of desired effect
s/do not want the body of messages from these notifications to be revealed in notifications/do not want the body of these notifications to be shown on the screen
Hm, I don't really get the privacy part. If someone can look at your screen he/she can also go to the notification log, no? And if you disable the log you're practically losing information by not having it displayed..? I would understand the privacy aspect if this were about notifications shown on a lock screen or something. But if a user has - at least visual - access to your computer I'm not sure how this would help. To some extent it's what I built the do-not-disturb mode for, but again, it's not *really* a privacy feature (especially if combined with the log).
Simon: You are correct in that this is not an explicit privacy feature, but hiding message body would help for shoulder prying when windows that deliver potentially sensitive notifications are not in the foreground. This was my specific use case. I am so far behind on version of xfce4-notify that I did not realize DnD existed. I'll go ahead and check it out. Cheers and thanks for the feedback
iOS lets you do this as well, even when device is unlocked, for anti-shoulder so to some degree they consider it a privacy measure
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