| Summary: | Allow manually sending all persistent notifications to the history | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | Alexander Potashev <aspotashev> |
| Component: | Notifications | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | kde, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 6.3.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
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Description
Alexander Potashev
2025-04-29 10:01:28 UTC
Can you outline a specific use case in which this happens? I think that would help guide the conversation towards something actionable. > Can you outline a specific use case in which this happens?
Sorry that I overgeneralized in the original description. Here's the same scenario, written in less generic terms:
I use a Chrome extension that notifies about code reviews becoming actionable (e.g. when I receive a new code review request) and similar events. Chrome notifications become Plasma notifications. Multiple notifications may accumulate naturally while I'm afk (e.g. sleeping). At least the code reviews are actionable, and I'll likely work on them on the same day.
I'm ready to give up some of my screen real estate to keep notifications around for a few hours in exchange for not having to check which code reviews are pending using a different tool: using 2 different views (namely: Plasma notification popups and code reviews tool's UI) increases mental load.
Isn't this the use case for sending notifications to the tray widget? There, you can keep them around, but they won't be taking up space on the screen. > Isn't this the use case for sending notifications to the tray widget? How do I send them to the tray widget? Do I need Plasma 6.4 for that? (https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/5359) > There, you can keep them around, but they won't be taking up space on the screen. I looked in the tray widget's popup and found a lot of notifications that are less interesting and probably were auto-hidden. If I minimize popup notifications to move them into the same widget, they will be hard to find in a haystack of other notifications. Btw, I wasn't able to find documentation on how notifications work besides https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Notifications, yet even the wiki page is confusing. Many widgets can be "minimized" to the widget, but not all. Perhaps the issue here is that *all* persistent notifications should be able to be minimized to the tray widget. The issue of the widget having other notifications in the history that you find uninteresting is yours to solve in System Settings > Notifications > Application settings; the system can't know what you want to see in there and what you don't. If there are any things in there that seems like they would *never* be useful to have in the history at all, then it's reasonable to open bug reports on the apps that send them, to ask them to mark those notifications as low priority, or to manually revoke them. Let's make this bug report about being able to send all persistent notifications to the history. |