Bug 432045

Summary:	Display the number of notifications on the systray instead of the bell when applet is always visible
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Rind <kde.milrind>
Component:	Notifications	Assignee:	Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate, plasma-bugs, xalt7x.service
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version First Reported In:	5.20.90
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Other
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	example This number that appears during downloads and file copies is a good example. I'm not a developer but I think it's already something "ready" for everything else?

Description Rind 2021-01-24 17:00:10 UTC

SUMMARY

My notification icon is always visible, and I have difficulties to notice when there is a new notification because the icon used to tell the user that there is a pending notification is almost the same as the one used when there is none.

Due to a visual impairment, I need to scale the plasma display to a higher value so I can see better. But that is not enough for this notification icon.

So please add an option to display the number of notifications (if any) in place of the small bell that is currently displayed.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.90
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.10.9-arch1-1

Comment 1 Rind 2021-01-24 17:00:33 UTC

Created attachment 135134 [details]
example

Comment 2 Rind 2021-01-24 22:01:05 UTC

Created attachment 135144 [details]
This number that appears during downloads and file copies is a good example. I'm not a developer but I think it's already something "ready" for everything else?

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-01-26 23:00:03 UTC

The use case of having the notification applet set to always visible seems valid. We removed the number with the expectation that the user would have it set to auto-hide. Having it always visible would indeed seem to benefit from seeing the number of unread notifications rather than the bell.

Comment 4 Rind 2021-01-29 01:40:57 UTC

thank you for considering this

Comment 5 Kai Uwe Broulik 2021-01-31 22:51:40 UTC

If you find a way to align a number in a circle/badge so it doesn't look horrible, I'm fine with adding the number back.

Comment 6 Rind 2021-02-11 14:32:35 UTC

What I quoted in the previous comment cannot be reused?

Comment 7 Rind 2021-02-11 14:46:44 UTC

I switched back to using the option to display the icon only when relevant for a few minutes and I think I can suggest another solution for that.
When there are pending notifications, the icon is displayed, great, but when they accumulate and I need to access the icon more than once it is not possible. Because the icon is hidden the first time it is clicked, even if there are still other pending notifications.

So an option to only hide the icon if all notifications are cleared/deleted would be a good work-around for this.

Since this is a different way of handling this problem than suggested in this bug report, I may create another different report.

Comment 8 Nate Graham 2023-04-28 04:56:39 UTC

*** Bug 460785 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***