Version: (using KDE Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources Compiler: gcc 3.3.1 OS: Linux So I set a new event with the reminder activated. I'm working on kdevelop meanwhile, when korganizer decides to alert the user (me). The window is created, but it doesn't popup. It's hidden on the back, not getting the focus. The user is not alerted at all
the window blinks in the taskbar! That's actually a feature of kwin. If you think, the blinking in the taskbar isn't good enough, report it as kwin bug.
it's not a problem of kwin. Other apps manage to show their dialogs just fine. Like kalarm did for me. The taskbar blinks, but several users, including me have the thingy hidden, so that's useless.
I think in this case the app should force stealing the focus. The user asked explicitly to be alerted using a popup message. It's not like any other information dialog. I almost missed my meeting! (serious)
I fully agree with Unai. The purpose of the alarm reminder is to really bug the user in an intrusive way. What use does an alarm daemon have if you have to check yourself every few minutes if it generated a message? Reinhold
Subject: kdepim/korganizer/korgac CVS commit by cschumac: Show alarm notification dialog on top of all other windows. This should now be the same behaviour again as in KDE 3.1.x. CCMAIL: 67502-done@bugs.kde.org M +2 -0 alarmclientiface.h 1.2 M +28 -21 alarmdialog.cpp 1.17 M +12 -2 koalarmclient.cpp 1.15 M +2 -0 koalarmclient.h 1.5
Please make this an option. I want to decide for myself just how "intrusive" I want the alarm to be. In my case, the alarm pops up 5 minutes before the meeting, and I want to continue working. I don't want to dismiss the alarm altogether, because it has the phone number, but I do want to be able to bring something else in front if I care to. I've been looking for an option for a while for how to disable this. This is one of the more annoying changes in 3.4.