Bug 163445

Summary:	knotify4 causes applications to freeze completely for a minute when displaying a simple message box
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] kdelibs	Reporter:	Diederik van der Boor <vdboor>
Component:	knotify	Assignee:	Olivier Goffart <ogoffart>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	andresbajotierra
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Diederik van der Boor 2008-06-07 13:08:12 UTC

Version:           onbekend (using 4.00.80 (KDE 4.0.80 >= (KDE 4.1 Beta1) "release 3.2", compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.22.17-0.1-default

When running KDE4 applications at a KDE 3 desktop, or Windows environment they get completely frozen while knotify starts up. This also happens when the application only needs to display a simple KMessageBox, which looks quite silly.

To fix this bug I think the following is needed:
- avoid blocking the application for simple message boxes. If the messagebox is closed before knotify4 is up, just don't play the sound.
- let applications start knotify4 in the background if they are sure they'll need it at some point.

Comment 1 Dario Andres 2008-12-26 21:03:05 UTC

Have you experienced this bug again with a recent KDE version? (4.1.3 / 4.2beta2 / 4.2svn) ?  Thanks :)

Comment 2 Diederik van der Boor 2009-07-17 00:26:00 UTC

No I haven't seen this issue anymore