wtf is notched?

Notched is a small widget for the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment on Linux that adds a floating, pill shaped panel at the top center of the screen, inspired by the Dynamic Island feature seen on some phones. Instead of a plain notification bar, this widget turns that area into an animated hub that shows live information and reacts as you interact with it. Hovering over the notch expands it, and you can drag it to a different spot on the screen if you do not want it centered. It shows your battery status and network connection, and connects to whatever music or video player you are using through a standard Linux media control protocol called MPRIS, so you can see and control playback right from the notch. It also taps into KDE's own notification system, so incoming notifications appear inside the notch and switch it into a dedicated notification view while they are active. A basic settings page lets you turn each of these features on or off individually, battery, media, network, and notifications, and also lets you adjust how see through the notch's background is. Visually, the widget deliberately skips Plasma's usual gray applet background so it can stand out as its own floating shape. The project is still under active development. The core shell of the widget and several of its live data sources already work, and the author is continuing to build it out toward a fuller system hub. To install it, you clone the repository and use KDE's own plasmoid installer tool to add it as a Plasma applet, and the same tool can upgrade or remove it later. It is built entirely with QML and the KDE Plasma frameworks, with no other external dependencies mentioned, and it is released under the GPL version 3 or later license.