Hi Derek,
First, I liked the old notification style with the linear countdown meter; I don't know what about the new style rubs me the wrong way, but I think it would be neat to have a toggle in notification settings to switch between countdown meter styles.
Is it misaligned for you?
Similarly, I noticed Breeze added a border to the scrollbar in 5.18. In my opinion, this makes the interface look more bulky and bubbly, and especially on my Konsole windows bugs me something fierce. I think it would make sense to add a Breeze scrollbar option for trough borders instead of forcing it on users.
I dislike our general lack of confidence in visual matters, resulting in "we don't reaaaally like what we just did, so let's make an option to try to please everyone".
While I am quite unhappy with the scroll bar change, especially that it went in at the last minute and is still causing fall out all over the place, they should stay like this now.
If it's not on anybody's radar, I'd be glad to poke around the source and try these changes myself, but I hope somebody who's already familiar with the source and the nitty-gritty of the changes between 5.17 and 5.18 has my back.
I won't implement an option for the notification indicator but if you want to, go ahead, as long as it doesn't cause too much spaghetti code, I won't be opposed to it. And while at it, we could then also have an option to hide the indicator entirely, perhaps a ComboBox in settings of sorts:
Hide after: [5 seconds v^] Timeout indicator style: [None|Circular|Vertical] Cheers Kai Uwe
