Is it possible to set how quickly the notifications in KDE4’s notifications widget will disappear? They stick around a couple of seconds too long for my taste.
I also want the same. Hope some KDE devs also read this forum.
Funny how I tried GNOME a couple of months back and concluded that it is great for basic users but not good for advanced users because it is too difficult to customize the DE. I still find KDE4 better but it’s alarming that they’ve gone in the same direction and that you can’t customize half the features in KDE 4.6. I hope those issues have been addressed in 4.7.
Hi,
unfortunately, it seems you can’t change the duration - see here :
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198331
Lenwolf
In fact I wonder why this notification thing is is there at all. It withdraws me from my work and never says anything useful.
Lucky you, hcw, you can remove the widget. I just want them to go away faster. I don’t need 5 seconds to understand what happened. If I do need more time in some cases I can always click the widget to review the notifications.
On 06/08/2011 12:36 PM, hcvv wrote:
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> In fact I wonder why this notification thing is is there at all. It
> withdraws me from my work and never says anything useful.
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turn them off if you don’t want them…
Personal Settings - Configure Desktop > Application & System
Notifications > Manage Notifications > Applications, spin “Event
source:” to “KDE Workspace” (or whatever it is that is making noise or
pop-ups and have a ball…
every sound and pop-up can be turned off (or on)…you can even change
the sounds if you wish (there are several MUCH longer than others…so,
pick some short ones, if you want)
when you have what you want (or what you no longer want) press “Accept”…
easy-peasy
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Any idea how to disabled Copying and Moving notifications? Krusader triggers them when opening and saving a remote file respectively.
OK, ok, I do understand that you can switch on/off a lot of things. But I can not remember I had this sort of myriads of useless notifications plopping up in 10.2. Then why is it that after an upgrade I have to be annoyed by them, learn where to find the configuration and then learn how to switch them off?
I remember that loading a web page with Konqureor did popup a notification (though not allways to make it more magicaly) that the page was “downloaded”. Well I could see it was there in my Konqui window. One of the reason I am using FF now more and more.
My post above was more to get some information about what usefull notifictions others value because I can not remember one. But forget it, I guess it is off topic.
Notifications that occur rarely are the notifications you want to see. You want to know when you removable drive is ready for access. You want to know if you accidentally plug off a usb device. You want to know when your NetworkManager finally managed to connect to a wireless network.
What I don’t want is notifications for thing that I do all the time. If I do something all the time, I’m quite sure I know that it is happening and I’m quite ok with it. For example, as a web developer, I often get to work with files on ftp and I save without thinking after each change I make in a file. Having 5 Moving [Finished] notifications stack atop each other and slowly disappearing one by one is not desirable in my case. So far, I haven’t been able to find settings for this kind of notification in either KDE settings or Krusader. (now I see a ‘Why do you use Krusader to edit remote files!?’ question coming from emacs or vi fans.)
For USB plugged in storage devices I have allready the device notifyer (and indeed, when I plugin I get two plopping notifications).
Network manager I do not use. But I wonder if it can not by itself tell when it connected.
I think I will throw it out.
On 06/08/2011 02:06 PM, Nameless One wrote:
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> Any idea how to disabled Copying and Moving notifications? Krusader
> triggers them when opening and saving a remote file respectively.
sounds exactly like a great question to ask on a Krusader forum
<http://www.krusader.org/phpBB/index.php> (if the answer doesn’t already
exist in the manual, other documentation/wiki or FAQ)
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Right-click the round “i” widget → configure notifications → uncheck file transfers and such…
But the above would be better with more granularity, like, notify only large file transfers, only removable device transfers, no transfers but notify other events, etc.
I use a logitech wireless keyboard, all the new ones have no state indicator lights (to save power, I think), and AFAIK KDE4 is still lacking a visual CAPS/NUM/SCROLL LOCK indicator for the panel. KDE3 had a crude (i.e. ugly) but functional one, now the only way a get some feedback is to enable these notification in the accessibility module, and get a notification every time one of these keys is pressed - instead of just noticing a light going on or off. Not very efficient.
This is in any case usefull information for me, thanks.
Yes this is what I want. However for short duration file transfers I do not see the notification.
There should also be way for applications to remove notifications. e.g. if I checked my mail then remove that notification. Some kinds of notifications should automatically be removed e.g. if file transfer is successful then remove that notification after some time. Its becomes bad when over time so many notifications stack up over time.
I didn’t want to turn off file transfer notifications because it is useful to have some sort of notification when a transfer that takes as long as ftp transfer is taking place.
I finally got fed up with the file transfer notifications stacking and turned them off. At first, what I was afraid did happen: the only way to tell that KrViewer finished saving my file was by the small asterisk in the file tab. However, when I booted the system today either KrViewer or KDE stoped displaying system notifications and stared displaying a file transfer dialog which I remember from older versions of OpenSUSE. I hope this is a permanent ‘smart’ change and not a temporary bug.
Not a bug, from what I experienced the old-style notification is a fall-back when the new one is disabled but the app you’re using still requires it.
Yes if you disable file transfer notifications in plasma then they are notified via dialogs.