Bug 100494

Confirmed. The problem is that knotify looks for kontact's eventrc instead of akregator's. So it can't find the event and thus doesn't execute it.
Apparently there is no way to tell the KnotifyClient to use a specific eventrc...

CVS commit by osterfeld: 

fix notifications when running in kontact.
BUG: 100494


  M +3 -3      akregator_part.cpp   1.153
  M +6 -1      notificationmanager.cpp   1.4
  M +3 -2      notificationmanager.h   1.3


--- kdepim/akregator/src/akregator_part.cpp  #1.152:1.153
@@ -203,8 +203,8 @@ Part::Part( QWidget *parentWidget, const
     {
         m_trayIcon->show();
-        NotificationManager::self()->setWidget(m_trayIcon);
+        NotificationManager::self()->setWidget(m_trayIcon, instance());
     }
     else
-        NotificationManager::self()->setWidget(getMainWindow());
+        NotificationManager::self()->setWidget(getMainWindow(), instance());
 
     connect( m_trayIcon, SIGNAL(quitSelected()),
@@ -241,5 +241,5 @@ void Part::slotOnShutdown()
 void Part::slotSettingsChanged()
 {
-    NotificationManager::self()->setWidget(isTrayIconEnabled() ? m_trayIcon : getMainWindow());
+    NotificationManager::self()->setWidget(isTrayIconEnabled() ? m_trayIcon : getMainWindow(), instance());
 
     RSS::FileRetriever::setUseCache(Settings::useHTMLCache());

--- kdepim/akregator/src/notificationmanager.cpp  #1.3:1.4
@@ -45,4 +45,5 @@ NotificationManager::NotificationManager
     m_maxArticles = 20;
     m_widget = NULL;
+    m_instance = NULL;
 }
 
@@ -52,7 +53,8 @@ NotificationManager::~NotificationManage
 }
 
-void NotificationManager::setWidget(QWidget* widget)
+void NotificationManager::setWidget(QWidget* widget, KInstance* inst)
 {
     m_widget = widget;
+    m_instance = inst != NULL ? inst : KGlobal::instance();
 }
 
@@ -74,4 +76,5 @@ void NotificationManager::slotNotifyFeed
     if (feeds.count() == 1)
     {
+        KNotifyClient::Instance inst(m_instance);
         KNotifyClient::event(m_widget->winId(), "feed_added", i18n("Feed added:\n %1").arg(feeds[0]));
     }
@@ -81,4 +84,5 @@ void NotificationManager::slotNotifyFeed
         for (QStringList::ConstIterator it = feeds.begin(); it != feeds.end(); ++it)
             message += *it + "\n";
+        KNotifyClient::Instance inst(m_instance);
         KNotifyClient::event(m_widget->winId(), "feed_added", i18n("Feeds added:\n %1").arg(message));
     }
@@ -101,4 +105,5 @@ void NotificationManager::doNotify()
     }
     message += "</body></html>";
+    KNotifyClient::Instance inst(m_instance);
     KNotifyClient::event(m_widget->winId(), "new_articles", message);
 

--- kdepim/akregator/src/notificationmanager.h  #1.2:1.3
@@ -44,5 +44,5 @@ class NotificationManager : public QObje
 
         /** the widget used for notification, normally either the mainwindow or the tray icon */
-        void setWidget(QWidget* widget);
+        void setWidget(QWidget* widget, KInstance* inst=0);
         
     public slots:
@@ -74,4 +74,5 @@ class NotificationManager : public QObje
         bool m_addedInLastInterval;
         QWidget* m_widget;
+        KInstance* m_instance;
         
         QValueList<MyArticle> m_articles;

*** Bug 234651 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***