Bug 156600

Summary:	Popups appear at random places
Product:	[Applications] kopete	Reporter:	Jose <getaceres>
Component:	Notifications	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.50.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Jose 2008-01-24 21:57:57 UTC

Version:           0.50.0 (using 4.00.00 (KDE 4.0.0), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.24-rc5-zen1-x86

Popup notification appear in the middle of the screen. While in KDE3 they appear only in the screen corner, in KDE4 they appear at random places, normally in the central column of the screen but at random height.
Also sometimes Kopete keeps showing popups for incomming messages even if the active conversation is in front.

Comment 1 Yuri Timenkov 2008-01-28 20:00:10 UTC

I suppose this is due to notify plasma widget. When I play with adding/removing widgets to dashboard or moving them, the position of popup changes.

Comment 2 Jose 2008-01-28 22:30:11 UTC

I don't know but I don't have any widget in the desktop, I only have applets in the panel.

Comment 3 Yuri Timenkov 2008-01-29 10:58:14 UTC

$> grep -B4 -A1  notif ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc

[Containments][3][Applets][7]
geometry=2388,8,48,48
locked=false
plugin=notifier

I'm not a plasma guru, but one time I had to look into config

Comment 4 Jose 2008-02-07 19:55:13 UTC

jose@ubuntu-desktop:~$ grep -B4 -A1  notif ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc

[Containments][2][Applets][7]
geometry=1080,8,48,48
locked=false
plugin=notifier

In KDE 4.0.1 I noticed that it now appears in the middle too but at least it appears always at the top of the screen. It's getting better, I think.

Comment 5 Diederik van der Boor 2008-04-27 22:58:45 UTC

This issue also happens when running Kopete of KDE 4 from a KDE 3 desktop.

Comment 6 Dennis Nienhüser 2008-05-12 19:50:34 UTC

There are two types of notifications: knotify displaying a KPassivePopup (centered in the top of the screen stacking up when new ones appear) and, if installed, an experimental "Notify" plasmoid replacing these popups.

I'll mark this as a duplicate of bug 159513, which also mentions both issues of popup placement and popup messages appearing even if the active conversation is in front (the notify plasmoid is out of kopete's scope).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159513 ***