It would be useful if there was an option for feeds in Akregator to show notifications until the notifications are closed by the user.

This way you could always get notified for a new item in a feed without having to check the feed (e.g. by opening a website or by opening Akregator).

This would probably be most useful for feeds with only few items.

With notifications I'm referring to the KDE notifications usually on the bottom right or top right of the screen which other apps (including the browser with plasma-browser-integration) can also use (afaik all using notify-send).


These things would probably be separate feature-requests:

- The notification box would also display the content of the feed-item, not just the title.

- There could be an additional "read"-status for items which were displayed in a notification box but not read within Akregator ("semi-read").

- It would be more useful if it was also possible to show multiple notifications for each new item in a feed instead of only one which has the number of unread items. This would require a way to close all currently displayed notification boxes for the feed as well as all Akregator feeds with a single click (and the same for all including undisplayed ones e.g. if there are many "pages" of notification items).

- Instead or in addition to multiple notifications for each new item there could also be larger (by height) notification boxes (which contain many feed-items).

- Instead of having to close the notification boxes by clicking on some close/X-button (either for each item or the large notification boxes as suggested above) there could also be another way to register that the currently displayed notification boxes have been read. For example there could be a mouse gesture that closes all the currently displayed notification boxes or the notification-box the user hovered the mouse over. These things could be options for the feed and/or in Akregator.


Maybe something similar has already been asked about or been built into similar software. I haven't thoroughly explored the idea and am interested in any kind of feedback to it.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 5.14.5
KDE Plasma Version: 5.14
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.54.0
Qt Version: 5.11.3
Akregator 5.9.3 (not listed in the versions dropdown)