Bug 485383 - Continue to handle notifications even when Notifications tray icon is disabled
Summary: Continue to handle notifications even when Notifications tray icon is disabled
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Notifications (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: master
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR task
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Depends on: 464750
Blocks: 485384
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Reported: 2024-04-11 15:28 UTC by Nate Graham
Modified: 2025-12-02 15:52 UTC (History)
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Description Nate Graham 2024-04-11 15:28:07 UTC 
Very similar to Bug 423625. Basically people disable this icon not realizing that it'll shut down all the notification handling--because we don't tell them. See an example of this at Bug 483643.

We could add some text that tells people what will happen when they do this, but I think it would be better to not let it happen in the first place, by de-coupling notification handling from the widget.
Comment 1 Bug Janitor Service 2025-11-24 00:33:01 UTC 
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/6044
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2025-12-02 15:52:42 UTC 
Git commit bd3d80b5ec4abab346e4e4a8d045acef79bfb2d3 by Nate Graham.
Committed on 02/12/2025 at 15:52.
Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'.

applets/systemtray: warn when disabling the Notifications widget

It's not obvious that disabling this widget will actually stop
notifications from being received and displayed. So, let's tell people!
This is what we do for the Clipboard widget already.

M  +9    -0    applets/systemtray/package/contents/ui/ConfigGeneral.qml

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/bd3d80b5ec4abab346e4e4a8d045acef79bfb2d3