Windows demanding attention, now that 365970 has been added, are overly invasive and irritating. 365970 is a major anti-feature to me, and I absolutely need a way to disable focus-attention. Please create settings to allow users to: - constrain attention-demanding windows NOT to demand attention on different desktops AC: when a window demands attention on a different desktop, but cross-desktop attention demanding is disabled, nothing should happen. AC: when "only show windows from current desktop/screen" setting is enabled, any attention-demanding window from different desktops/screens should NOT show on taskbar. - set panel NOT to unhide when hidden and a window demands attention AC: when a window demands attention and panel-unhide-on-attention-demand is disabled, panel should not unhide - disable attention-demanding altogether (no flashing on taskbar, no special colouring, etc) AC: when any window demands attention and attention-demand is disabled, nothing should happen
Created attachment 120520 [details] Screen capture of panel flashing
Second this. The relevant logic was [committed](https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/1c0593f8ec65392e12ba2608e601251ddcd80e1a) already. What's left to do is to add the UI element to configure this logic.
I had filled out a bug report and found this. I'll just copy what I wrote there SUMMARY Windows demanding attention force one to switch to them otherwise they will permanently stay there. This is distracting and should be able to be deactivated. Especially with autohide panels, the panel then overlays part of the window (sometimes important ones) and forces one to break concentration. Especially during COVID times and working from home, messengers do this and without a method of disabling them, productivity can drop. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Create an autohide panel 2. Add task manager (either one, normal or icons only) 3. Open messenger and switch away from it 4. Wait for somebody to message you OBSERVED RESULT Autohide panel overlays active window. EXPECTED RESULT A setting to ignore windows demanding attention. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS OS: openSUSE Leap 15.2 KDE Plasma-version 5.21.4 Version of KDE-Frameworks: 5.81.0 Qt-version: 5.15.2 Kernel-version: 5.3.18-lp152.69-preempt Type OS: 64-bit Graical platform: X11 Processors: 8 × AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics Memory: 60,7 GiB RAM GPU: AMD Radeon™ Vega 11 Graphics ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
When you have an auto-hide panel, you can now make windows that want attention not force the panel to appear. That's as far as we can go here.
Created attachment 148370 [details] attachment-30546-0.html That's great! I'll finally be able to add a taskbar again. Which version of plasma will this fix be in?
Bug 394119 is the one tracking that, and it says the option is in Plasma 5.22.
Could you reopen this bug? It is not implemented as far as I can see and Bug 394119 is about a related but different feature.
I don't think we plan to disable the ability for the task manager to show when a window is demanding attention, sorry.