While this was in principle a good idea to keep active jobs at the top of the
history, it can cause unwanted dialog shifts and dialog recreation when there
are two jobs and the first one finishes and then the second one finishes.
Notification spec says, when replacing a notification:
> The server must atomically (ie with no flicker or other visual cues) replace the given notification with this one.
Notifications shifting about is a "visual cue".
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D29771
This ensures that newer notification popups don't push old ones out.
Some applications are notorious for spamming the user which right now results in a firework
of notification popups. With this patch only the number that fits on screen is displayed and
everything beyond that is off screen until there's enough room for new popups which are
then gradually lowered.
It also reduces the likelihood of the notification the user is interacting with being shifted
away by an incoming notification. Furthermore, since notifications that are off screen will
have their timeout reset, it can happen that you have a bunch of recent notifications at the
bottom but then get some old ones that were off screen sliding back in because some middle ones
have expired already, leading to awkward results.
Notification scoring (e.g. critical before normal) is untouched, so a "battery is critical" notification
will show up even if it's still chugging through the backlog of browser notifications.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D28646
- Rename some of the classes:
NotificationServer -> Server (there's namespaces, you know)
NotificationModel -> NotificationsModel (so it's plural like JobsModel)
- Introduce NotificationGroupingCollapse
- Wire up PulseAudio-qt for eventual notification silence in dnd mode
- Touch up notification looks
- Add indentation and "line" for grouped plasmoids
- Rethink "show more" button to be at the end
- Fix buttons overlapping
- Remove NotificationDelegate item and do those few adjustments in FullRepresentation
- Cleanup job details, handle when processed > total
- Use States {} more
- Show low urgency popups by default but don't add them to history
- Improve compact reprsentation
- Keep popup open during interaction (context menu, drag)
- Improve "ago" label (e.g. show "Last Sunday")
- Improve group visuals (still pretty much WIP)
- Hide popups when interacted (opened file, triggered file action, etc)
Closing when having invoked an action isn't implemented yet but is probably neccessary
- Make autohide job popup setting work
- Set critical AlwaysOnTop (requires KWin patch)
- Improve error handling in ThumbnailStrip
Show file icon if thumbnail generation failed instead of a blank space
- Add heuristic for popup placement and make custom setting work
- Add deviceName and displayApplicationName (for KDE Connect)
So it can show from which device and which app this notification originally came from
- Improved service discovery (and defaultComponent handling)
Quite a few notifications, e.g. DrKonqi crashes are in plasma_workspace.notifyrc
When we get an event like this, show the original app instead
- Make blacklist for popup and history work
- Add "lastRead" property for "unread" handling vs "expired" (latter likely to be dropped)
- Add sortMode so history is strictly sorted by date (it's grouped after all)
- Begin work on do not disturb UI in plasmoid
- Cleanup, pimpl NotificationServer and Notification for export
- Wire the old dataengine up to use it for compat:
it shows notifications but is otherwise pretty broken right now
- Start writing kconfigxt and Settings code (no real code yet)
- Add a Inhibition DBus interface (no actual server-side code yet)
- Group notifications by application
Pretty much tasks grouping model from libtaskmanager slightly adjusted
- Let widget take full height when expanded in vertical panel "side bar usecase"
- Fix bugs here and there
- Notification action buttons
- Custom icon pixmaps in notifications
- Popup handling
- Notification urgency (low isn't shown as popup TBD, critical always no matter what)
- History stuff (only expired notifications end up there, none that were closed or revoked)
- Text selection and copy for body text
- Basic tray icon support
and many other things
Application jobs are shown as part of regular notifications:
- They show up as little popup that can be hidden in the history
- When finished progress popup turns into a notification
There's still some glitches and missing features, notably
- Screenshot thumbnails
- "Open" functionality for finished jobs
- History layout
- code cleanup
- and basically every configuration option
Alexander Lohnau
Kai Uwe Broulik