Extending notification mechanism

[clsturgeon]

Back in 2022 I see a discussion was raised on this topic:

Duration of notifications (the tm-notify widget message)

I think that the duration of notifications cannot be easily manipulated at present, at least not without modifying some core tiddlers. I’d like to request an extension to the tm-notify Widget Message so as to be able to control the duration of the notification, perhaps using an additional (optional) parameter where we could define the duration of the notification in miliseconds? The tm-notify Widget Message

…and a ticket soon followed. Until this is addressed I noticed a simple CSS addition (with no changes to the existing notification mechanism) can add a simple stacking mechansim. This has it’s limits. i.e. the number of notifications that stack is restricted by the CSS. In this case I only implemented three:

.tc-notification { top: 3rem !important}

.tc-notification:nth-last-child(1) {
  top: 3rem !important;
}.tc-notification:nth-last-child(2) {
  top: 8rem !important;
}.tc-notification:nth-last-child(3) {
  top: 13rem !important;
}

I have been thinking about adding more actions to the button that can override the notification duration setting (for example 10s) then send the notification, followed by setting the value back to its default value. However, a better implementation would be for the notification mechansim to support a duration parameter and/or support a notification duration field in the notification tiddler. However, I might be able to support this in the action list as well.