The new notification timer that counts down until the notification expires causes roughly 15% CPU utilization on my dual core Intel Core i5 Kaby Lake processor. The constantly moving timer also makes notifications more distracting. I would prefer improved battery life and less distracting notifications over having the timer. At the least, I would like to see an option to disable the timer.
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A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/6114
Git commit 2bd23f27997ba66feee5fbf3785dbd16993efe29 by Nate Graham, on behalf of Anton Birkel. Committed on 31/12/2025 at 16:55. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. Add user-configurable option to show/hide notification timeout indicator This adds a new "Show timeout indicator" checkbox in System Settings → Notifications that allows users to control the visibility of the horizontal timeout progress bar in notification popups. When disabled, the animation is stopped to reduce CPU usage. FIXED-IN: 6.6.0 M +2 -1 applets/notifications/NotificationPopup.qml M +1 -1 applets/notifications/delegates/DelegatePopup.qml M +1 -0 applets/notifications/global/Globals.qml M +12 -0 kcms/notifications/ui/main.qml M +3 -0 libnotificationmanager/kcfg/notificationsettings.kcfg M +14 -0 libnotificationmanager/settings.cpp M +8 -0 libnotificationmanager/settings.h https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/2bd23f27997ba66feee5fbf3785dbd16993efe29
*** Bug 514130 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***