Version: (using KDE KDE 3.2.1) Some KDE and non-KDE applications have started displaying notification messages in the bottom-right corner of the screen. For example, MSN Messenger and Mozilla Firefox. Also KDE apps often display a little message in that place, e.g. Kopete. These might be annoying for some users, but for others they are a lot less intrusive than the traditional alertbox popping up in the middle of the screen. How about if KDE creates/expands the standard framework for these? For example, they should be configurable, and it should be possible to review the history of missed alerts. It should be possible to disable them temporily. In fact, I say the functionality should echo much of what's documented here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/Longhorn/understanding/ux/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnaero/html/wux_topic_alerts.asp Ideally, this could be adopted by the good KDE developers before 2007. What do you say? ;-)
I think this feature request is becoming increasingly relevant. More and more applications are using these info bubbles. Off the top of my head, Kopete, Amarok, kftpgrabber, appollon... It would be nice if they had a consistant look. Every app seems to do it a bit differently.
It appears that Gnome 2.14 will have a feature similar to this. http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-14/ (bottom of the page)
Well, you have the knotify framework which is already much more flexible then Gnomes libnotify (you can use notification bubbles, sounds etc und you have a central consistend configuration through kcontrol). What should be done is to improve the look and featureset of the KPassivePopups. Right now you can specify the level (importance) of the event in eventsrc but it is mostly ignored for KPassivePopups. It should at least use different icons (warning, error, notification, etc) and should have longer timeouts for more important messages.
Looks like this is coming: http://blog.bepointbe.be/index.php/2006/08/30/18-notifications-in-kde4-with-knotify
I think that being able to log and review notifications is a very good idea. I would love to have the ability to force all dialog boxes that contain only one option ("OK") to not display and simply go into the log where I can review them. (Why interrupt my work, when you aren't giving me a choice?) It would also be nice to have the option to have events like this show up on a news ticker like interface.
This is similar to what I was trying to explain in Bug 96603, which could be marked as a duplicate of this bug.
*** Bug 96603 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This bug hasn't received any input lately so I want to point to http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/10/plasma-is-now-feature-complete.html which shows message handling by plasma. Can this bug be closed?
Although the linked article mentions that notifications are now handled by plasma (a common framework), it gives no indications that the "advanced" feature requests included in this "bug" exist: they should be configurable, and it should be possible to review the history of missed alerts, it should be possible to disable them temporarily. I don't think that this bug should be closed yet, though I will admit that it looks like we are getting closer.