Bug 425355

Summary:	Give us a way to disable the notifications triggered when file operations are started/completed but allow the users to use all their features via Notifications applet
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Patrick Silva <bugseforuns>
Component:	Notifications	Assignee:	Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	faure, kdelibs-bugs-null, nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Patrick Silva 2020-08-14 18:47:59 UTC

SUMMARY
Plasma shows a notification from Dolphin when file operations
(copying/moving/deleting/renaming) are started and completed. Consequently,
when I need to do many file operations in sequence I receive many notifications, which I consider distractive and annoying. Furthermore, I rarely use the features of these notifications like pause/stop, "Open", "Open containing folder" and the options of its hamburger button. I can already use all these features via Notifications applet if I want. Therefore, the notifications related to file operations are essentially useless for my use case and I think that an option to disable them would be nice. Once these notifications are disabled, Plasma should only notify about failed file operations.

I'm not sure if this is a bug or intentional, but currently "do not disturb" feature of Notifications applet doesn't mute the file operations notifications.
Even if "do not disturb" mode worked with file operations notifications this would not a good solution because in this case Plasma would also mute other notifications potentially important for me like the ones from a chat app or email client, what is not desirable.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.74.0
Qt Version: 5.14.2

Comment 1 Patrick Silva 2020-08-14 22:23:45 UTC

Humm, we already can disable these notifications unchecking "Show in notifications" under "Application progress" in Notifications kcm. But in this case we lose all previously mentioned notificaions features (pause/stop, open, open containing folder, options of the hamburger menu).
If we also uncheck "Show in task manager" we get a separate window and consequently an additional entry in task manager, what can also be annoying when we do many file operations in sequence.
A way to only disable the notifications triggered when file operations are started/completed and allow the users to use all their features via Notifications applet would be nice.

Comment 2 Kai Uwe Broulik 2020-10-29 19:44:30 UTC

So basically you want all jobs to spawn "minimized"?

> but currently "do not disturb" feature of Notifications applet doesn't mute the file operations notifications.

That's correct. They are user-initiated tasks that a user still probably wants to monitor/know about.

Comment 3 Kai Uwe Broulik 2020-10-29 19:48:14 UTC

... and not raise automatically when finished, only in case of error.

Comment 4 Patrick Silva 2020-10-31 13:57:26 UTC

(In reply to Kai Uwe Broulik from comment #2)
> So basically you want all jobs to spawn "minimized"?
yes, I wish an option to ti.

(In reply to Kai Uwe Broulik from comment #3)
> ... and not raise automatically when finished, only in case of error.

At least on neon unstable, if "do not disturb" mode is enabled I get a notification even when the task is finished without error.