Bug 493928 - Feature Request : Disable Notification Autohide
Summary: Feature Request : Disable Notification Autohide
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Notifications (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: git-stable-Plasma/6.2
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2024-10-01 16:42 UTC by qubist-pixel
Modified: 2024-10-03 14:19 UTC (History)
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Description qubist-pixel 2024-10-01 16:42:11 UTC
Right now there is no way to disable autohide of notification popups. It is possible to increase the timeout to 120 secs but it cannot be disabled.

Provide a way to keep the notification popup visible until user closes it.

More Context : https://discuss.kde.org/t/stop-notification-from-disappearing
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-10-01 16:55:30 UTC
Hmm, I don't think this makes sense, sorry. The screen would fill up with notifications that all require manual intervention to remove. I don't see us adding this option.
Comment 2 qubist-pixel 2024-10-01 17:48:49 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> Hmm, I don't think this makes sense, sorry. The screen would fill up with
> notifications that all require manual intervention to remove. I don't see us
> adding this option.

Maybe we can have per app notification settings. Something similar to what windows have. Then we can set some app notification to never disappear ?
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2024-10-01 19:06:40 UTC
What's your use case for that?
Comment 4 qubist-pixel 2024-10-01 19:15:52 UTC
Important browser push notifications disappear before action is taken. 
Not all apps make important notification persistent either.

By overriding notifications for some apps, we can make these 
notifications persistent (which would otherwise disappear)
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2024-10-03 14:19:20 UTC
It sounds like those are all app bugs. I would strongly recommend contacting the apps' developers asking for them to either raise the priority of those notifications, or set the "persistent" flag (depending on what's appropriate).

Th issue here is that if we offer controls people can use to work around issues like this, it prevents the UX from getting better for everyone, since the people who will find and use the workarounds are the people technically competent enough to report the issue in the right place. Thus, regular people encountering the issues will still have a bad UX forever, because all the people capable of making it better already did so but only for themselves.