What's the difference between "don't ask again" and "don't show again"?
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For notification like “Microsoft Defender may affect IDE”, it has “never ask again” (some other notification has “don't ask again”) option. And if you click the three in the upper right of the notification, it has “don't show again” option.
I checked the CLion settings in “AppData\Roaming\JetBrains\CLion2025.2\options\other.xml”, these two options surely have different attributes:
1. “never ask again” sets this:
2. “don't show again” actually sets DoNotAsk which is really confusing:
So what's the difference between these two options? They all prevent the notification from appearing again.
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The core difference is that "Don't show again" is shown for notifications where you can set it to be hidden. "Never ask again" as I see, is for actions outside the notification system where this will translate to ignoring the specific dialogs, warning and confirmations. So It is about confirmation versus simply hiding notifications.