Persistent Floating Notification Bubbles for Plasma

[mwije]

First off, thanks for KDE! Plasma has been a fantastic experience!!

I’ve been exploring how to best handle ToDos and Reminders within Plasma. I currently use tasks with synced reminders across devices, but I often find calendar “reminders” a bit clunky. When you have more than a couple due, the experience can get overwhelming, the screen quickly gets crowded.

What if we could transform these notifications into floating bubbles (draggable) always visible until dismissed? Imagine your day’s tasks stacked as little buttons, each with quick actions like done, snooze, or open app. A task you keep procrastinating could sit there nudging you until you finally hit done.

Could Plasma support this kind of floating buttons today, or would it need a plasmoid/extension? If there are ones that’d be great to try on.

Do you see value in this? Curious if others feel the same itch. Looking forward to your thoughts!

[the-entropyst]

That sound like a good idea.

I don’t think i need such features but it could be very usefull to extand what it’s possible to do with notifications specially the ability to pin notification and drag them around.

[CaptainQuertz]

Something like this would go well for the file transfer notification too

File transfer notification as window instead

Hi all, I have an idea for an improvement to the dolphin file transfer thing. Rather than a notification that is always above windows and in a fixed position on screen, I think it would be better if it is a separate floating window. That way you can move it around, have it in some empty space on the other monitor. I could just turn my head to see the progress rather than clicking on the notifications icon on the bar. I like the new graph, but it resets whenever the notification is hidden. […

There are probably other things where this kind of thing could work well, any ideas?

[the-entropyst]

I made a notification concept (THIS IS NOT INTENDED TO BE REAL) where I simplified the popup to be less cluttered and added a pin button (sorry if it’s look like shi–).

I also think that hiding the controls when it’s not hovered is a good idea to reduce cluttering even more without sacrifing features:

In my head the entire space would be draggable around the screen.

What do you think ?