Dunst: Set maximum notification height

[ghost]

Not an issue, question

Is there a way to cut off text instead of displaying all of the text?
It can be quite cumbersome to display a whole stupidly long message :/

[tsipinakis]

There isn't currently. The closest thing is the DUNST_NOTIF_MAX_CHARS constant but that's set at compile time and it's there more to prevent a client making dunst hog the CPU by sending a giant notification.

That being said I wouldn't mind adding such a feature with if there is a convincing use-case. Can you go into a bit more detail on what types of notifications you're looking to truncate?

[beef331]

The most compelling case for this is when recieving whole code blocks in a single message from discord or other messenger. Takes up the entire 1080p's vertical height.

[tsipinakis]

That makes sense. Have you tried using geometry and shrink to restrict notification size or is there a reason it doesn't work?

[beef331]

I honestly have very little idea how to properly customize dunst, but i did try shrink and the geomety.

geometry = "300x2-30+20"
shrink = yes

Results in

[tsipinakis]

You're right, I tried a few combinations and there doesn't seem to be a way to set a hard limit. word_wrap = no would achieve this but then you're limited to a single line.

I'd be open to implementing this but in my opinion this should be in the form of a max_height and not a character limit, to fit with the plans in #336 , and to avoid variables like font size and spacing.

[beef331]

Max height would be a nice solution, I would like it to add a trailing elipsis if at all possible, but that's up to you if you wish.

[tsipinakis]

There's already the ellipsize setting for adding ellipsis when the notification is truncated (currently only happens when word_wrap is off).

So this would ideally work in the same way

[TRSx80]

The solution is actually to avoid Discord like the plague, and instead hang out in IRC where (most) people have the sense to instead post a link to a paste. :wink: :smile:

[Sh3Rm4n]

The solution is actually to avoid Discord like the plague, and instead hang out in IRC where (most) people have the sense to instead post a link to a paste. 😉 😄

Well I do not think that this is a solution, because it is not only discord. kde-connect for example is also a candidate which notification-text includes whole email-texts etc.

So avoiding such programs just so that Dunst behaves right is the wrong solution.

[fwSmit]

@apoorv569 @advilm
It seems like there is a lot of demand for this feature, so I think we should probably implement it, although it will take some time to do it correctly. I agree with @tsipinakis that the best way to implement this would be to add an option to limit the maximum notification height. This will probably be enabled by default and I think it should include limiting the icon size as well.