On-screen notifications when events fire

[kg4zow]

I use the "obsidian-git" plugin to sync my vaults against a git repo. It has settings which, when enabled, makes a small box appear at the top right corner of the app whenever it "does something", i.e. commit, push, fetch, etc. and then disappear a few seconds later.

It would be nice to have an option which enables this kind of notification - maybe as a global "on/off" thing, but ideally as something which could be enabled or disabled for each script, or for each event type on a script. As it is now, the script I'm running creates its own log file, and I have to tail -F this file to be sure it's firing when I expect it to. (And so far it has been.)

It would also be nice, although maybe a little embarrassing, to find that this functionality is already in there, and I've just missed it so far.

[kg4zow]

I just discovered by accident, anything that the script sends to STDERR ends up becoming one of the small black boxes I'm talking about.

[kg4zow]

And then I found the documentation about how the STDOUT/STDERR stuff works.

[Taitava]

Yea, and there's also an option to show a notification box when a shell command starts to execute. 😉

(I'll move this discussion to Q&A.)

[Taitava]

To improve things a bit, I'm thinking about changing the default values for a couple of settings. I'd like to ask you @kg4zow to answer these two polls I just created, please: 🙂

• Sensible defaults: Should the setting "Show a notification when executing shell commands" be enabled by default? #422
• Sensible defaults: Should the "Output channel for stdout (standard output)" be something else than "Ignore"? #423