Created attachment 143187 [details] Screenshot SUMMARY Currently when Discover notifies about new updates it only notifies about the fact there are updates. It shares zero information about them in the notification popup. These notifications could be made more informative by showing the number of pending updates and displaying a really short summary on what's getting updated. Showing the number of pending updates would also be beneficial for nudging users to update. I feel bad praising Google on user interface design given how they massacred their UI in the recent years, but their Play Store notifications are a good example on how this could be done in KDE. OBSERVED RESULT -Discover-------- Updates available [View Updates] ----------------- EXPECTED RESULT -Discover-------- Updates available Krita, Kdenlive, and 123 other packages are ready for update [View Updates] ----------------- SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon 5.23 KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.87.0 Qt Version: 5.15.3 Graphics Platform: X11
How would a more populated notification improve your experience? It doesn't even tell you all the things that changed.
But it tells me that some things have changed and pending updates have started amassing in the background. After the introduction of offline updates I started being guilty of not immediately updating when I only have a small number of outdated packages, postponing things a bit because restarting my machine every day just for updating three random packages is a hassle [1]. I may not be the only user that offline updates had this kind of detrimental effect on. And I cannot turn off offline updates because live updates have caused me severe Plasma and Dolphin breakages in the past. Showing a bit more detail in the notification popups would help nudging me to not forget updating. Currently these notification popups and the tray icon are devoid of any kind information, triggering banner blindness in users like me. [1] Why?: Partially broken login screen on multi-monitor setup with different resolutions, broken session restore in several of my apps (Bug 439243 and friends), etc.
Somewhat related GitLab issue: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/issues/15
(In reply to Aleix Pol from comment #1) > How would a more populated notification improve your experience? It doesn't > even tell you all the things that changed. It could tell me whether the detected updates are "System Updates", or flatpak updates, or firmware etc. I don't use Discover for system updates because it's horribly slow, I just use dnf on the command-line. But I do use it for flatpak and fwupd updates, because I'm lazy and they're less frequent so I don't mind the slowness. So it would be nice if the "updates available" notification let me know if it's something I can ignore.
I like the openSUSE Tumbleweed implementation with Plasma: the tooltip for the notifier icon shows the number of updates, and when you click the icon it lists them