[kmail2] [Bug 368346] New: Add configuration option to set notification expiration timeout

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368346

            Bug ID: 368346
           Summary: Add configuration option to set notification
                    expiration timeout
           Product: kmail2
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: jansen at hbz-nrw.de

With KDE/Plasma 5 a change was made to the notification system which keeps
desktop notifications from being saved in the notifications history unless
they´re explicitly marked as "persistent": cf. the discussion at
https://github.com/blue-systems/plasma-5.4/issues/48

To me, this is a rather annoying behavior especially with notifications for
incoming mails (mine are sorted to a bunch of folders automatically and if I
did not read the notification I have to go on a hunt for the new mail...).
Other people have similar complaints in different situations; e.g. see Bug
#356657.

Since the notifications protocol mandates that the app sending the notification
is responsible for the timeout I´d suggest adding an appropriate option to the
KMail configuration.

The behavior of "notify-send" when used with the "-t 0" switch makes some
sense: it shows the notification for a few seconds in a pop up window which
then auto-hides while the notification is kept in the systray widget
(notification history) unless dismissed explicitly.

On the other hand it might be even better if one could configure two timeouts:
one for the pop up and one for the time the notification would be kept in the
history until dismissed automatically (with 0 probably meaning: keep until
dismissed manually by the user).

Reproducible: Always




I´m torn between marking this as a wishlist item and a bug because I consider
it a regression...

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