Confirmed with current Amarok 2.4-git, using Kubuntu 10.10 with KDE 4.6.1

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Confirmed on openSUSE 12.1 from KDE:UpdatedApps repository, which right now
contains Amarok 2.4.3.

In my case, the OSD wants to stay vertically centered on the screen, I'm only
allowed to change its horizontal position, and only to 3 predefined snap points
at left, center and right side.

Is this a bug or a new "feature" we are not aware of...?

I can confirm this behavior with Amarok 2.5.0 (KDE 4.8) on Ubuntu

Thank you for the feedback.

I have the same problem and I want to mention that there's a workaround:

Just edit /.kde4/share/config/amarokrc, while amarok is *not* running, and change the following line:

[OSD]
Osd Y Offset=...

Don't know how to change the X Offset so, as the obvious doesn't seem to work.

I confirm this bug in amarok 2.5.0 on Kubuntu 4.12 beta ,kde 4.8

*** Bug 301404 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This is partially solved in the upcoming Amarok 2.6, you can already test with Amarok 2.6 beta1.

What currently doesn't work:
* can't be placed on a second monitor that is not set as the primary output.
* can not be moved to the bottom half of the screen, only the upper and middle parts of the screen can be used.

why was this bug even introduced? it has been working alright for ages and now we are suddenly stuck with OSD notification completely unusable taking the middle of the screen where other important information are covered over by this.

and how is the bug resolved, if you still can't move OSD to the bottom in 2.6.1? this is definitely not "solved".

Well, we certainly don't introduce bugs on purpose...

Also I said partially solved, read again, please. I didn't close the bug, didn't I?

No, the bug is still "new" and as valid as before ;-)

Does someone know if/when there was the last amarok version that had the OSD working correctly?
Or has this bug been present ever since in the amarok 2.x series?

(In reply to comment #10)
> I have the same problem and I want to mention that there's a workaround:
> 
> Just edit /.kde4/share/config/amarokrc, while amarok is *not* running, and
> change the following line:
> 
> [OSD]
> Osd Y Offset=...
> 
> Don't know how to change the X Offset so, as the obvious doesn't seem to
> work.

Thanks Oliver Hoffmann.

Just in addition I confirm the bug in version 2.5.0.

For those running Kubuntu 12.04.1 the right location of the configuration file is: ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc

Check this section of the indicated file:
[OSD]
Osd Alignment=Right
Osd Enabled=true
Osd Y Offset=750

In a screen resolution of 1440x900 it will be enough to put the OSD on the right bottom of your screen. In case of bigger or smaller resolution just change the value of the attribute "Osd Y Offset" with the Amarok closed.

Bug is reproducible in 2.6-git

Adapting bug description to the current status.

Can reproduce this bug with v2.6.90-25-g9b18527

Reading throught the code it seems like the OSD cannot be vertical positioned at all.
The only possible alignments are
 enum Alignment { Left, Middle, Center, Right };

It's confusing but working as implemented.
So I change this to a wish and the title and add junior_job

(In reply to comment #21)
> Reading throught the code it seems like the OSD cannot be vertical
> positioned at all.
> The only possible alignments are
>  enum Alignment { Left, Middle, Center, Right };
> 
> It's confusing but working as implemented.
> So I change this to a wish and the title and add junior_job

Dear @Ralf Engels,
Since it used to work in the past, as mentioned here, wouldn't it be a regression problem?

Yes, this is definitely a regression as it did work before, so a real bug, not a wish. I am also not sure a Junior Job is a good idea in this case, as finding what caused the regression might be tricky.

It's interesting that this used to always work, just with recent changes in Amarok we are now stuck with vertically centered OSD and unable to drag it conveniently.

This regression has been around for long enough to be fixed, but rather somebody just tags it as a wish instead. Great. [sarcasm off]

(In reply to comment #24)
> It's interesting that this used to always work, just with recent changes in
> Amarok we are now stuck with vertically centered OSD and unable to drag it
> conveniently.
> 
> This regression has been around for long enough to be fixed, but rather
> somebody just tags it as a wish instead. Great. [sarcasm off]

Right, and how does your comment contribute to the fix of it?

(In reply to comment #25)
> (In reply to comment #24)
> > It's interesting that this used to always work, just with recent changes in
> > Amarok we are now stuck with vertically centered OSD and unable to drag it
> > conveniently.
> > 
> > This regression has been around for long enough to be fixed, but rather
> > somebody just tags it as a wish instead. Great. [sarcasm off]
> 
> Right, and how does your comment contribute to the fix of it?
+1 Myriam

To make the search easier: Does anyone happen to know whether this is this a regression inside amarok 2 or was this behavior introduced during the switch from amarok 1.x to amarok 2.x?

no, it used to work in 2.x

I am looking at the code here and it's clear.

- There are four possible positions and only the "Middle" position influences the Y position.
- The jumping around is part of the code.
- There were no substential changes since years.

I can't see how that was a regression and it is really a nice junior job to extend the code.

Interesting, so you are saying that bottom vertical position has not been possible before? Then how is it that I have always had it there (bottom left corner) and just with a recent updates (maybe 5 months back) it stopped working?

I still have it at the bottom right corner and I am running the latest Amarok version.

Just looking at the code again.
It's confusing, inconsistent and somebody should clean the code up.
Since it's so confusing I am admitting that I might have overlooked a slight change that could have broken the whole thing.

Git commit 9dae4c63d69658b97f6844d87cc4ef8fd4175851 by Mark Kretschmann.
Committed on 02/03/2013 at 19:00.
Pushed by markey into branch 'master'.

Fix vertical positioning of On-Screen-Display.

Due to a bug the widget could not be moved vertically.

M  +1    -0    ChangeLog
M  +11   -15   src/widgets/Osd.cpp
M  +3    -3    src/widgets/Osd.h

http://commits.kde.org/amarok/9dae4c63d69658b97f6844d87cc4ef8fd4175851

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