So one thing I would love to see is the ability to tweak what can and cannot send notifications, and to what degree.
Bottom line, I want things like Text Messages, Calls, and Voice Mails to come through. Maybe my weather, too... so that it can program can provide some up-to-date weather warnings.
Furthermore, I would love to see a way to set how much of a notification is displayed... so for instance:
- Texts may only get a blurb "You received a text from XXXXXXXX", when clicked it opens in the text section of the app with that message selected
-A similar solution for e-mails
-A similar solution for Voicemail, but a button to "Show on Phone" or something
- A call may show a shaking phone icon, the caller's picture, name, and number, and the obligatory "Answer" and "Decline" buttons.
- A weather alert may have the area(I.e. Bozeman, Montana), the general alert (Volcano Warning, Wind Advisory, Blizzard Watch, etc.), Effective Times (Start & End), and the first few lines of the Alert COMPLETE text with an option to click to view (be it on phone or on PC).
These are just suggestions on how I would want them handled. But these are just a few of the ways one MIGHT want them handled, and these (among others) should be available for the user to select as desired.
Moreover, I would love to be able to turn OFF the rest of them. Itʻs not that I donʻt want these notifications. I just donʻt want or need them on my PC. So being able to tweak it so certain notifications stay on the Phone helps to keep non-essential distractions to a minimum.
I think I saw somewhere that this app/feature is actually a tweaked version of KDE Connect (or something like that). If so, how do we request that it be updated in the source? As it is open source, is it possible to tweak it in this way?
Just a thought, Mahalo nui loa for your time.
These are very ambitious suggestions and are not trivial.
What you are asking about are multiple layers of programming, including partial content redaction per category.
The KDE Connect developers would need to be the ones to implement these suggestions - as it also would require expansive long term maintenance, not least because applying all of the above would need a structural reworking and engineering of the base application.
Yes, Zorin Connect is a fork of GSConnect, which is itself a fork of KDE Connect, modified to operate as a Gnome Extension.
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I understrand that, I also know it's not impossible... as that is how MS Phone Link was on Windows. And I think Samsung's phone-link (before they became compatible with MS phone link) did something similar
As much as I would love the custom notifications (i.e., different styles based on the type of notification), they are secondary to the other request: being able to turn off specific notifications.
For example, I don't need to know that someone walked past my RING camera on my PC... my phone from across the building can let me know with that annoying ring sound. (Every single time someone walks past one of my cameras 
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I don't need to know that I recieved an E-mail... as I am already on my PC.. chances are, the E-mail program on here (or the web browser I'm logged into) already told me the same thing... what's more.. it has to tell me EVERY e-mail that comes through (not just "you have E-mail messages", but "X sent you a message", "Y sent you a message", "Z sent you a message" and EVERY SINGLE ONE has to be announced )
Various things like that... I don't want to turn them off completely.. just filter what makes it through so that it's useful.. and not AS annoying as it is now.
The other things, though nice.. are wants... but being able to filter notifications would make this thing not useless and annoying. That is my big want.
You know the reason why Microsoft has an advanced notification tool? Its because Microsoft is made of money by the billions, and have expansive teams by the thousands. KDE is lucky to have a team of 100 to put on it, if that, and they certainly don't even have millions let alone billions, to put money into creating it, or maintaining it like @Aravisian mentioned.
What you are asking for, is a AAA feature, from a 2 person dev team. We thank you for your feedback however. Maybe you will get lucky in the future, and KDE implements it, but I wouldn't hold my computer mouse.
