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separate option for dismissing SMS messages in Chrome extension

currently there's only one, a global option of dismissing all notifications so that notifications are either dismissed after being shown for x amount of time or manually dismissing. since SMS messages are pushed regardless of the setting to push only on Wi-Fi, would it be possible to have a second option for dismissing only SMS messages so that they can be dismissed manually or after x amount of time independent of the current global option?

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Yes, that's certainly a possibility :) Thanks for bringing it up! Maybe you can create a separate request for that?

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Done: https://joaoapps.helprace.com/i228-make-chrome-notifications-use-multi-action-button-and-dismiss-button

Yes that does make sense although I didn't add that because chrome notifications only support 2 buttons and that way I would be "wasting" one of the buttons on a dismiss. But maybe if that's the feature most people are going to use it's not such a waste... what do you think?

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I didn't realize there was a 2 button limit. That explains why you did what you did. I suppose having the dismiss button appear when there is only 1 other action would make it inconsistent with the times where you had two actions and couldn't show the dismiss button. That would likely cause more confusion on how to dismiss those. Hard question, but I guess it makes sense you did it the way you did now.

So the way that push bullet gets around the 2 button limit is when there are more than 2 actions, they become a comma separated combined button that opens another window which has more than 2 buttons. The second option on the first popup always remains as dismiss this way. I forgot they did this until I got a push notification today that had a few actions. Works pretty well that way. Thoughts?

I'm looking for this too. Currently, I use PushBullet and it has a dismiss option on notifications of all types (including SMS). I like the ability to dismiss a notification on the phone from the browser. This should also happen automatically if replying to something. 

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You can already dismiss them on the phone from the browser by dimissing them on the browser. You just can't dismiss them just on the browser :)

I see, you are saying that if I hit the "x" in the chrome popup that in addition to the expected behavior of closing the alert on my computer, it also unexpectedly dismisses the notification on my phone (I tested this to be true too). The way push bullet does it is the provide a "dismiss" button (usually under the reply button) that dismisses and the notification can otherwise by closed on the computer without affecting the phone. I prefer this as I can more quickly get it off my screen while leaving it on my phone if I'd like (rather than waiting for it to close on its own after a few seconds and not affecting the phone's notifications. Make sense? 

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