Created attachment 149413 [details] How notification counter looks in fedora kde 36 SUMMARY *** NOTE: If you are reporting a crash, please try to attach a backtrace with debug symbols. See https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports *** It would be nice if there is way to customize notification counter in app icon: 1. Customize position, left/right top/bottom 2. Customize notification dot size 3. Customize notification dot background STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Try to find a way to customize this OBSERVED RESULT No way to customize this. EXPECTED RESULT Have a way to customize this. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora KDE 36 (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.93.0 Qt Version: 5.15.3 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Created attachment 149414 [details] How i want notification to look after my customizations
Maybe we could make this a themable thing...
We could potentially make it themable via Plasma themes but I don't think it makes sense to let it be user-customizable. That's overkill that would introduce bugs. Ultimately I think when you say "I think it should be customizable" what you mean is "I think it should look different". Is that correct? Can you explain why you prefer it to look like the second attachment?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3) >Can you explain why you prefer it to look like the second attachment? Notification dot is so small imho, and the blue dot background near the blue telegram icon is not very clearly visible to me. On windows dot is bigger, and dot background is red, so it's more visible for me. It would be nice if notification dot in kde will become more like in windows, size and color.
The dot size is dependent on the size of your Task Manager/Panel; it will get bigger if yo make your Panel thicker. At thicker panel sizes IMO it's actually already quite large and we can't make it any bigger without obscuring a significant percentage of the app icon, which is what your Windows screenshot shows. I don't think that's a good thing. As for the dot being blue and blending into Telegram's blue icon, there are two reasons why this isn't a fixable thing: 1. If we hardcoded it red it would blend in with red app icons 2. It's not hardcoded to blue in the first place; it follows the selection color in the color scheme or the accent color you set as a user. So it's already user-configurable on a global level inasmuch as it follows your color scheme. This makes the color non-hardcoded which means in principle it could interfere with any app icon's color, in the case where they happen to be identical. So I don't think we can support the request, sorry.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #5) >The dot size is dependent on the size of your Task Manager/Panel; it will get bigger if yo make your Panel thicker. Task manager panel is bigger than in windows, so do icons, i don't think making a notification dot a little bigger by default will "obscure a significant percentage of the app icon", app icon is still be visible. > 2. It's not hardcoded to blue in the first place; it follows the selection color in the color scheme or the accent color you set as a user. I don't really want my system to be bloody red (https://imgur.com/pOEFUBS) just to make notification dot, considering that only outline will be really "light red", can at least notification dot background and outline be themable in colors settings?
Sorry, no. The size is at a level that's comfortable given Plasma's design style, and mixing user-customizable UI elements with theme-following UI elements is a recipe for visual brokenness. I don't think we're going to able to accommodate the requests, sorry.