Knotes is part of Kontact, yet there's no way to keep it integrated with the desktop. It does not behave like a widget when it should (imho) -"show the desktop" hides knotes- There's a widget from kdeplasma-addons that integrates perfectly with the desktop and it's very fancy (I think it's called "Notes") My suggestion is to merge those two apps into one: essentially it would be the actual widget "Notes" but integrated into Kontact as Knotes does actually. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run knotes 2. Open multiple programs 3. I want to make a note on it 4. "Show desktop" = Knotes it's hidden now :( Expected Results: I'd expect for Knotes to stay on desktop as a widget (as the Widget "Notes" does) - The actual Widget is very Fancy. A little of it to Knotes would be highly apreciated by end users I think. - Knotes in the systray is a good option too, but from my experience the "Notes" (or Knotes) must be a widget and not disapear like other windows
On the other hand, widgets are always below all other windows, so you could not have a note displayed, while using other applications (unless you have the screen space to make windows smaller).
But what's expected from a note, @Christoph ? I use it to make a little comment or to remember something specific. I assume that for larger tasks a notepad should be used... unless that's the goal of Knotes (and in wich case I won't insist about this ;) You have a fair point @Christoph, and I should add to the behaviour this: - Keep a tray icon for Knotes, when clicked all windows hide, Knotes is focused and the rest of the screen gets a pale colour. A click outside Knotes restore everything back.
Or can't exist a way for when the tray icon is pressed, the widget comes to the front and it comes back to desktop when clicking other windows?
KNotes is no longer maintained since 24.08. Please migrate to Marknote. https://apps.kde.org/marknote/ See https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/release-tools/-/merge_requests/53