Bug 216947

Summary: Notifications disappear too fast
Product: [Unmaintained] kdelibs Reporter: Bhaskar Kandiyal <bkandiyal>
Component: knotifyAssignee: Olivier Goffart <ogoffart>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: daltinn.pbl, g111, jaak, plasma-bugs-null, putr4.s
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 4.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Bhaskar Kandiyal 2009-12-01 16:09:39 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.3.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

The notifications in KDE disappear too fast. The timeout value for the notifications is too low I think.
By the time you notice that there's a notification, it just disappears.
I know that there's an option to disable autohiding of notifications but that's too anoying when there are lots of notifications coming in.
So, basically, it would be better if there would be an option to configure the time after which the notifications automatically disappear.

I'm using Kubuntu 9.10, and both the KDE Notifications and the Ayatana notifications have this problem.
Comment 1 Daltin 2009-12-17 11:53:07 UTC 
Will be great to configure disappear time or disable autohiding for each "event source"/"notification type"
Comment 2 Jaak Ristioja 2010-05-05 20:26:10 UTC 
In addition, it were nice if those time-outs were reset and the notifications were fixed on the screen if I move my mouse cursor over any notification.

For example in case I want to read a notification I could move the mouse over the notification, and read the notifications as long as possible. Only when I move my mouse elsewhere, the notifications are allowed to time out.

The notifications should also not move on the screen, nor should new notifications appears in a way that could make me click a wrong notification by mistake. For example, all notifications have close (X) buttons: I move my cursor over the button and start moving my mouse finger to click it, but milliseconds before my click, if a new notification were to appear there, I would by mistake close the wrong notification without a chance to inspect it.

However, all this also requires to rethink how notifications appear and disappear if there are tens of them at a time, so that the user would not miss any and was still able to inspect them in a respectable manner.
Comment 3 g111 2010-05-18 20:48:24 UTC 
I 2nd comment #2. a) mouse over should hold messages; b) avoid closing the wrong message
Comment 4 Prajna Sariputra 2024-02-08 00:54:35 UTC 
With KDE Plasma 6 from git master at least (and Plasma 5.27 as well I'm pretty sure) there is a setting to change how quickly the notification popups disappear, and hovering the mouse cursor over the notification will also keep it from disappearing until either the close button is clicked or the mouse is moved away from the notification, in which case the timer until the notification disappears resets, so I think this can be closed.