KDE Plasma 5.16 Rolling Out Rewritten Notification System

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Plasma 5.16 Rolling Out Rewritten Notification System

After being talked about for years, next month's release of KDE Plasma 5.16 will introduce a completely rewritten notification system for the KDE desktop...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Plasma-5.16-Notifications

[birdie]

I'm curious when they will rewrite/remove Plasma completely.

[yossarianuk]

I'm curious when they will rewrite/remove Plasma completely.

Well they are re-writing kwin to make it run with far less latency

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-KWin-Low-Latency

KDE IMO is the best desktop for Linux or any OS, can't stand Gnome, for me its unusable as a desktop.

[M@yeulC]

Well they are re-writing kwin to make it run with far less latency

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-KWin-Low-Latency

KDE IMO is the best desktop for Linux or any OS, can't stand Gnome, for me its unusable as a desktop.

Hum, a third-party is doing this, it's X only, and he doesn't intend to mainline it... So "they" here doesn't refer to the plasma team

[schmidtbag]

I don't really have much of a problem with the notification system. In some cases, I actually like it more than what most other DEs have to offer. I just wish it were more customizable. You can't do a whole lot about the size and appearance of it, and I can't find any way to control how long notifications pop up. At the very least, all I ask is the latter feature, and the rest is good enough.

[skeevy420]

Well they are re-writing kwin to make it run with far less latency

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-KWin-Low-Latency

KDE IMO is the best desktop for Linux or any OS, can't stand Gnome, for me its unusable as a desktop.

To add to what M@yeluC said, that's being done by our editor, tildearrow.

[Charlie68]

Beautiful and productive this change to the notifications, Palsma is my favorite DE, I think it's nice to have a great DE like Plasma 5 in Gnu / Linux.

[Britoid]

I'm curious when they will rewrite/remove Plasma completely.

5) I want to be able to see my average CPUs frequency as a number. There's no such plasmoid or feature for KDE 5.

I'm sorry, why should a DE provide this feature?

[M@yeulC]

I'm curious, could this be made to run in sway as a standalone notification manager? It should if it's using default Wayland protocols

I'm sorry, why should a DE provide this feature?

Yeah, if you have very specific needs, you basically have two options:
* Write/maintain it yourself
* pay someone to do so (I guess it wouldn't even be that expensive, especially if you were to find a few like-minded people to "crowdfund it: I could chime a $).

[nomadewolf]

Well they are re-writing kwin to make it run with far less latency

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-KWin-Low-Latency

KDE IMO is the best desktop for Linux or any OS, can't stand Gnome, for me its unusable as a desktop.

Gnome was my DE for years, until the 3.xx abortion came to be.
Now, i'm pretty happy with Cinnamon.
I really like the look and feel of KDE, and no doubt it's the most 'powerfull' DE out there.
It's just not for me, though.