On Friday 23 May 2014 22:58:21 Mark Gaiser wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Christoph Feck <christ...@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) > > _______________________________________________ > > Plasma-devel mailing list > > Plasma-devel@kde.org > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > > 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) _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel