Why Gnome3 notifications for system disks don't time out ?
All right. So when you plug in an external disk of some kind, all the magic happens behind the scenes and then it gets automounted for you and you get a lovely [notify-send] notification that pops up giving you a chance to "Open with Files" or "Eject", right? If you don't click on the notification (either the two choices, or elsewhere in the notification) it doesn't go away--apparently it doesn't have a timeout (unless it's ridiculously long). That's fine by me. I like this behavior.
Now. I have a system disk with multiple partitions and various filesystems, all of which I don't need to be mounted all the time. Whenever I need to get at one of them, I open nautilus (Files) and click the appropriate FS in the tree on the left to mount it up. This works.
The problem however, is this: AFTER mounting it manually in this way, I get a never-times-out notification about said filesystem (Open with Files/Eject), which basically means I have an extra click I have to do.
Clearly the system just displays this notification whenever anything is mounted by the current user. I doubt there's any hope of fixing this annoyance, aside from doing things with root (can mount from the command-line to avoid the notification, but that's just silly), but I thought I'd ask anyway. Any hope?
EDIT: Finally bothered to create an account in Gnome's bugzilla, but before posting I spent a while searching for an existing report of this and FOUND IT: bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665135
Same here. When I plug one in too, the notification waits for me to click on it :/
There is no particular settings for Gnome3 for setting the time out. I found a setting in org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.housekeeping (min-notify-period) in which you can set the time for the warnings to stay.
I'd suggest you file a bug. It makes no sense for notifications to stay for ten minutes. Specially when you have a permanent icon in the notification area for mounted drives. Please do post the bug id here once you've filed it. Thanks!
@ryran, I suggest you go with @FranciscoD_'s idea to file a bug and link it here in this question. I also felt 10 minutes time as sheer waste for a notification.