Allow to disable On/Off notifications

[popod]

On macOS each times I manually enable/disable sleep, a notification appears.. It will be really nice to allow us to disable this.

For now I've disabled all KeepingYouAwake notifications.

Thank you :)

[newmarcel]

Hi!
This was indeed an intentional decision for this initial implementation. Right now there are only notifications for activation and deactivation, so the system-wide on/off toggle manages only these.
I wanted to avoid redundant checkboxes and therefore only placed the "Notification Preferences…" button for convenience in the General preferences pane.
That's my reasoning behind this feature.

[popod]

Hi,

Ok, thank you for reply ! I understand your reasoning but I see two cases where (perhaps) a setting could be useful:

• It could be nice to only view notifications when sleep is automatically disabled after one hour for example, but not when I manually enable/disable sleep. If you think that this is a good idea, I can create a dedicated issue for this feature.
• If I disable all notifications from macOS settings and that some others kind of notifications are then added to, I could miss them and don't know that they exist.

This is just ideas and I understand that you want to keep the settings as simple as possible.

[newmarcel]

That's a very good point 👍.
I think it could be useful to separate between automatic and manual activation/deactivation events for notifications. Some people (like me ^^) prefer to have these notifications disabled, but if only automatic events cause notifications I could keep them enabled without them being noisy.

A preference toggle could let the user decide if they want notifications for all activation/deactivation events or just for automatic changes like the timeout or battery threshold.

That's very good feedback, thank you very much! I will try to have this implemented as a toggle in Preferences for the next release 😃.

[popod]

Hi, thank you for your reply ! I'm happy to help and hope to test this in a near future :)

[timpatient]

From a UX perspective, I don’t think user-driven actions should trigger notifications.
If I tap a toggle, I’m actively changing a state — I expect a result. Getting a notification about something I just did on purpose doesn’t add value; it just creates noise. And if that happens repeatedly, it leads to notification fatigue and trains users to ignore alerts altogether.