How to enable notification history for an application

[Nate Graham]

FWIW I was just triaging a bug report in which users were complaining 
about missing KAlarm notifications. After thinking about it a bit, I 
think that it's appropriate for "alarm/timer finished" notifications to 
be persistent and not time out; if you miss the notification that the 
alarm or timer has finished, the entire point of setting it in the first 
place is defeated.

On 9/19/20 8:42 AM, David Jarvie wrote:
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> 
> On 18 September 2020 17:12:48 BST, David Edmundson <david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 3:45 PM Kai Uwe Broulik
>> <kde at privat.broulik.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>> Is it possible for the application to change its own "show in
>> history"
>>>> setting, instead of the user going to System Settings to do this?
>>>
>>> It is not.
>>>
>>
>> Let's back up a bit, what's the end goal we're trying to achieve for
>> the
>> kalarm notifications that isn't fulfilled out of the box.
> 
> I'd considered providing a setting to choose between persistent notifications, which wouldn't need to show in history, or for notifications to hide after timeout, which would require them to show in history. If, as you say, the application can't change the history setting, I won't provide the persistent notification option (which in any case could be considered to duplicate the existing functionality using notification windows).
> 
> --
> David Jarvie
> KAlarm author, KDE developer
>