" Is it possible to disable those silly sound notifications and possibly replace it with a flashing taskbar icon type thing?"
It may be possibleto turn them off in the KDE control center:
Start kcontrol
Click on Sound & Multimedia
Click on System Notifications
turn off: Play a sound
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