Be able to dismiss installer notification

[scottrudy]

📝 Do not use a toast for install status progress, perhaps show it in the MSI dialog

What is the expected behavior of the proposed feature? What is the scenario this would be used?
I would like to be able to access my notification tray icon menus, but I can't because the toast is on top and hides the menus. I also like to see progress, so I am suggesting that the status still be shown,, just not in a toast popup, as it is a bad user experience on Windows. See example below where the hidden icons in the notification tray area can't be accessed.

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[Jay-o-Way]

The Z-index is also mentioned in #85. As for the solution; do you have a suggestion? The current update method creates a window that shows the process too.
Also, "as it is a bad user experience" sounds like a personal opinion. Maybe you could use the Feedback hub to send a message to Microsoft, if you haven't already?

[scottrudy]

@Jay-o-Way Considering there is a Winforms dialog too, I don't see the point of the toast. I think the progress could just be shown there. I mentioned the toast to Clint via Twitter during the last release and he suggested I post an issue here.

I agree with the general issue about Windows putting notifications so close to the task bar and the z-index problem, but a progress bar, to me is not what a toast notification should be used for. They should be short lived.

[scottrudy]

Here's another suggestion if you must have a toast with a progress bar. Hide/Minimize it after it displays for a few seconds. The last install I ran there was a problem with the uninstall, so that toast remained there for minutes, not seconds.

[Jay-o-Way]

I do not disagree with you. I've seen a few other issues (closed in the mean time) about the amount of toasts from Powertoys and their position in general. Aside from position, they can be tweaked/drawn in a few ways. I personally don't mind one or two of them, as long as they will be cleaned up when they are no longer needed.

[niels9001]

#6751 could be a nice place for the update progress to show.

[crutkas]

@niels9001, the installer then would have the flyout :)

@scottrudy you can close out / dismiss notifications. Here is the X for installing. I can install a lower version and then try 0.23 again but you should be able to X it as with any notification.

[scottrudy]

@crutkas I didn't have the x or -> to clear/minimize the last time I ran it, but I did have a general problem with the installer, so maybe something else was going on with my machine (e.g. explorer.exe crapping out). I'll keep an eye out next install. I do still maintain that a toast is odd place for a progress bar that doesn't hide itself after a few seconds, especially considering there is a separate installer window already.

[yuyoyuppe]

We've got many requests to remove toast as an update progress bar, so we'll replace it with something else.

[crutkas]

Fixed with 0.29, released today. https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases/tag/v0.29.0