Bug 64370

Summary:	Track Announcements by Young Hickory Should Not Cover Kicker
Product:	noatun	Reporter:	Carsten Schlipf <carsten.schlipf>
Component:	Young Hickory	Assignee:	Multimedia Developers <kde-multimedia>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.2.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Carsten Schlipf 2003-09-16 15:35:40 UTC

Version:           2.2.1 (using KDE 3.1.3)
Installed from:    compiled sources
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.20-18.9

A similar bug was described in http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53993, however it got closed.

The announcement of the track is very nice, however since it covers the taskbar it makes large parts of the taskbar unusable. One thing I frequently would like to use after the track changes is to adjust the volume using the kmix dock icon. However it's covered and I have to wait some seconds untilt the announcement dissapeared.

I see three options:

a) Announce it with a bouble, similar to the announcement of new messages in kopete (the bouble should be closed automatically though).

b) Allow the user to position the announcement window by configuring the coordinates of the top left corner of the announcement window.

c) On-screen display like sim is doing it. See the first screen shot on http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/sshots.shtml.

Comment 1 Eray Ozkural 2003-09-17 11:45:56 UTC

Don't we have a standard way of displaying informative messages like kmail. etc. is using? 
 
What sim does is nice, but that doesn't respect the position of kicker AFAICT!

Comment 2 Stefan Gehn 2004-10-20 20:39:31 UTC

Hmm, why is this one assigned?
Furthermore I just committed a new passivepopup-look to CVS HEAD, please test and tell me if positioning is any better

For the OSD part somebody (maybe me) would have to write a plugin for Noatun. If you want such a plugin just file a new wishlist bug (+ vote) and I'll see when I have time to implement it (I don't need it myself so without any demand I won't get my hands dirty ;) )

Comment 3 Stefan Gehn 2004-12-27 15:38:36 UTC

I assume this is fixed with the current systray code in CVS.