SUMMARY When updates are available, the updates notifier icon appears in the system tray but Plasma does not show a notification. EXPECTED RESULT Plasma shows a notification when updates are available. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.99.0 Qt Version: 5.15.6 Graphics Platform: Wayland
We suppressed notifications from appearing so frequently, and made them subject to a user-configurable setting. But just notifications, not also the tray icon. So this is currently the intentional state of the code, but I agree with you that it's awkward. IMO the icon shouldn't appear until the notification does.
I'd like to think a bit more about this. I think it's good to see the icon, it's true. We are muting some notifications in order to not overwhelm our users. I think that it would also be a disservice to entirely hide the update.
The problem is that suppressing the update notification without also suppressing the tray icon reveals to the user that our update check interval setting isn't doing what it says it does; clearly Discover is checking for updates whenever it feels like it, and it's just suppressing the notification and showing that to the user based on the schedule the user has chosen. So I think we have two options here: 1. Rename the setting in the KCM to "only show update notification: [once a day, once a week, etc] 2. Also suppress the tray icon on the same schedule we suppress the notification
Partially relevant to this issue: Discover gives an "Updates available" notification, then when clicking on it Discover sits at "Fetching updates..." I would expect the notification not to appear until *after* package-update lists have been fetched, otherwise I'm just left waiting on the app when clicking the notification. Distro: Fedora 37 beta
(In reply to Diggory Hardy from comment #4) > Partially relevant to this issue: Discover gives an "Updates available" > notification, then when clicking on it Discover sits at "Fetching updates..." > > I would expect the notification not to appear until *after* package-update > lists have been fetched, otherwise I'm just left waiting on the app when > clicking the notification. > > Distro: Fedora 37 beta That's not relevant to this specific bug report; let's not discuss it here.
*** Bug 461642 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #6) > *** Bug 461642 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** As an user, I would expect that the notification and the icon are synced: if the notification is set on weekly basis, the icon should also appear weekly. To be honest I didn't even noticed the notification (maybe a wrong setting in my installation) and I thought by "notification" you mean the icon. For me it's annoying to see that icon everyday just to update a single 30KB package :-) My 2 cents. I welcome any option you choose. Thanks again for your hard work on KDE.