Bug 186007

Summary: notification causes panel to wobble
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: doc.evans
Component: notificationsAssignee: Rob Scheepmaker <rob>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: andresbajotierra, asraniel
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description doc.evans 2009-03-03 01:07:16 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Every time that a notification appears, the panel that contains the system tray wobbles briefly.

I have all desktop effects turned off; and it's definitely just the panel that wobbles; other plasmoids, windows and the desktop as whole don't move.

(Running:
64-bit Kubuntu 8.10 + KDE 4.2
HIS Radeon HD4670 IceQ card 
fglrx 8.552
xorg 7.4)

This is a new problem in KDE 4.2. It did not exist in 4.1.x.
Comment 1 Dario Andres 2009-03-04 15:29:26 UTC 
With "wobble" do you mean that all the elements on the (horizontal) panel moves towards the left some pixels, and then return to their original position when the notification hides itself ? That is because a new icon is added in the systemtray to show(and manually hide) the Notifications. (a blue information icon ("(i)"). Or do you mean something else ?
Thanks
Comment 2 doc.evans 2009-03-04 17:24:03 UTC 
I wish I knew how to capture a video, but I'll try to describe it...

Just to be clear, this is NOT a result of the "i" icon appearing in the system tray.

Here's what happens:

1. The entire panel shifts left and then back to its normal location.
2. The whole thing lasts a fraction of a second (much less time than the notification popup is visible)
3. It doesn't seem to happen unless the panel occupies less than the full width of the screen and the minimum width of the panel is not equal to the maximum width.
4. It is very consistent: once you have the conditions right for the bug to occur, it happens every time a notification popup appears
5. It appears exactly as the notification popup appears; nothing similar happens when the popup disappears
Comment 4 Dario Andres 2009-04-25 19:48:05 UTC 
Waiting for screencast
Comment 5 doc.evans 2009-05-12 23:27:12 UTC 
Problem seems to have disappeared in KDE 4.2.2.

I think you can close this, and I'll re-open if it happens again.
Comment 6 Dario Andres 2009-05-13 01:58:57 UTC 
Closing as WORKSFORME. Feel free to reopen if you experience the same bug again. Thanks