While the [1]GNOME 48 feature and UI freezes went into effect just a little more than one week ago, a freeze exception was granted for merging support in GNOME Shell for grouping notifications on a per-app basis.

Merged today for GNOME Shell 48 is [2]notifications: Implement per app grouping . This code has been one year in the making for allowing grouping of notifications by app. This code has been revised a lot over the past year and now finally ready to go with GNOME 48.

With the feature freeze in effect for GNOME 48, a UI freeze break was [3]requested and granted. As this code only affects the GNOME Shell notification drawer without risking regressions elsewhere while also fixing some long-standing usability issues, the freeze break was granted.

Here are some screenshots from that feature break request showing the grouped notifications per app as well as expanding the notifications:

Look for this refinement to be part of next month's big GNOME 48 desktop release.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/GNOME+48

[2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/3012

[3] https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Releng/freeze-breaks/-/issues/190