Zorin Connect Notification Customization

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:

  1. 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
  2. A call may show a shaking phone icon, the caller's picture, name, and number, and the obligatory "Answer" and "Decline" buttons.
  3. 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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