Notification bloat (4.xx)

[Christoph Feck]

On Thursday 22 May 2014 20:23:00 Mark Gaiser wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First of all, i have no solution for this. I've just observed an
> issue with the notification system that might benefit of
> improvements when we all brainstorm here about how it should
> behave. This is for KDE 4.xx, but i'm guessing the actual
> notifications are the same in plasma next. Please do correct me if
> i'm wrong.
> 
> Just a few minutes i noticed a few things when i was:
> 1. downloading a few files using ktorrent
> 2. copying a few files in dolphin from X to Y
> 3. wireless network connection lost
> 
> Point 3 is obviously a notification i want to see and know about.
> 
> But 1 and 2 are not notifications that i care about. I don't even
> think they should be part of the "notifications" as they are now.
> They should just be short lives messages to tell me something and
> probably just disappear when they are not useful anymore. I don't
> think they should be persistent and pile up in the notification
> area as they do now.
> 
> Slowly but steadily more applications start using the notification
> area. Which is great, no doubt there! But the amount of persistent
> notifications (that i need to click away for the notification
> bubble to become clean again) is beginning to be annoying.
> 
> What's your opinion here?

I have disabled "File transfers and jobs" in Notification Settings. 
The old style progress window only appears when operations are not 
completed immediately, and closes without any trace once they have 
finished (unless I request to keep it open). Plasma notifications for 
"progress" type notifications should also work this way.

If you want more opinions, please also read the bugzilla entries for 
plasma/notifications. Users there generally agree that the current 
notifications are not without annoyances.

Christoph Feck (kdepepo)