https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378032
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--- Comment #11 from jan...@hbz-nrw.de ---
To me, the most annoying case of disappearing (temporary) notifications are
those about newly arrived mails in KMail. I have a bunch of filters to dispatch
incoming mail to different folders and whenever I turn my attention back to my
pc I have to look through a bunch of folders just to see if anything went by
unnoticed.
I opened bug 368346 so someone could address that but it did not receive any
attention.
In https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Notifications the topic of this bug is
filed under "crazy ideas" which I believe to be inappropriate. On the other
hand there´s this statement on that page that I consider totally weird: "...
but having [notification about completed file transfers] persistent makes no
sense, because if you return to your PC after a while and see neither an
ongoing file transfer nor an error message, you know it has completed
successfully." I mean, seriously?? Like, getting distracted by a phone call
while copying a bunch of files individually, and than having to remember (or
look up) which ones I already processed and which not...
Downloads in a browser are the closest analogy I can think of for this - and
every browser I´ve used keeps a list of completed downloads around.
I think it is hard to precisely define which notifications to keep in a backlog
and which to discard and that makes me believe that a "keep all until
dismissed" config flag would indeed be helpful (in combination with a "clear
list" and perhaps a "remove this and all older notifications" button) if only
because we will not reach an agreement between application developers and users
either in the near future or at all.
Yes, it has it´s drawbacks. But if it´s implemented the user at least has the
chance to decide if she´s willing to accept the drawbacks in order to gain the
benefits. Being bossy and telling the users what´s right for her has never been
the KDE way (which does not mean that pre-selecting some option to nudge users
in a certain direction isn´t acceptable and a valid strategy).
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