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Right now notifications are tied to the system tray plasmoid. But It would be nice to be able to separate the two fonctionnalities : the notification in a corner and the systray applet somewhere else.
It is two different fonctionalities, so it makes sense to make one plasmoid for each.It would be both more neat and more flexible.
It may also be usefull as it would be possible to have several systray in kde 4.4 (if I remember well).

Actually, the system tray applet is a plasmoid (as far as I know). Do you want move the notification somewhere else, or why do you want different plasmoids for the same thing?

Also, the last line is unnecessary since it's a separate idea.

yes there is a plasmoid (system tray) that do the notifications AND the miniatures. The idea is precisely to separate those two fonctionalities, with a plasmoid for each. The last phrase is not a separate idea, it is a second argument to explain why we could want to have those fonctionalities separate.

The notification plasmoid would be only the button with the 'i' logo on it.

I like the combination Ayatana/KDE approach in Kubuntu. Keeping permanent things like file transfers attached to the system tray, but having ethereal, non-interactive ones like kopete messages show up in any corner you choose as growl-like popups.

I meant the 'i' icon when I talked about "the system tray applet", not the system tray. In 4.4 you'll be able to put other plasmoids in the system tray, such as the Battery widget.

The reason multiple system trays is problematic is because the icons (using the old protocol) are painted by the applications and not by Plasma.

... Which ends up in icons being in one OR the other tray... and managing the configuration sucked when I tried it... a separate plasmoid would be great... (the kubuntu stuff sound great)

I like the idea of a notification plasmoid.

you could place it in the taskbar or on the desktop and have something like a notification log with timestamp and content of the notification.

Perhaps you could even suit each notification entry with links, e.g. to be transfered directly to the file copied or moved, to source or destination directories, to trash if the file is deleted or even to the new email received.

So you could even track back what happened on the system in the past. Great!

If you now add simple non-notification content to this log like, files opened, apps started, you get a complete log of you activities and you will be able to reconstruct all you done, e.g. if you are looking for a file or want to restart an application or find again that plasmoid you accidentally removed from the desktop yesterday, or whatever more...

And the last and most crazy step would be the addition of that arbtt thing to that 'Advanced KDE Notification and Acitivity System Log' as I would then call it: a demon that tracks how much time you spend with an application active and not active and how much time you do nothing and scrreensaver is on and so on. Time-Tracking for exact control over the time you spend on certain projects or the time you are non-productive.

great improvement to the notifications issue in my book!

sorry, double post, because i got no response on the first click... sorry.

This is in 4.5