Notification bloat (4.xx)

[Christoph Feck]

On Friday 23 May 2014 22:58:21 Mark Gaiser wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Christoph Feck 
<christoph at maxiom.de> wrote:
> > 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)
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> Just out of curiosity, where did you find the option to disable
> "File transfers and jobs"? I can't find it in system settings ->
> "Application and System Notifications".. And i can't find another
> place to change notification settings. I was expecting a right
> mouse button on the notification bubble to give me a "Notification
> Settings" but there is nothing like that.

Right-click the Notifications icon in the system tray, there select 
"Notification Settings". Just in case, I am talking about Plasma 1 :)

Christoph Feck (kdepepo)