Bug 218429

Summary:	Useless "Recent notifications" popping up making it look like 2 notifications are appearing
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Frederik Himpe <fhimpe>
Component:	notifications	Assignee:	Rob Scheepmaker <rob>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	chgonzalezg, kontakt, lu.dolezal, mail, mirza.dervisevic, notmart, pano_90, plasma-bugs, vivaelamor84, web
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	Useless "recent notifications" pop-up, makes it look like two different notifications are shown to user Add an option to Enable/disable history New patch version, fix empty notification (bug with kopete) Add an option to Enable/disable history Same patch for TRUNK

Description Frederik Himpe 2009-12-12 20:50:52 UTC

Version:           4.3.80 (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Whenever an application shows a notification (in the attached screenshot, Amarok) pops up a notification, a second "notification" like pop-up appears showing the applications with recent notifications. This is totally useless, especially if there is only one application. It takes up extra screen space and makes it look like there are two different notifications, for no benefit. This second Recent notifications "notification" should be dropped in this case.

Comment 1 Frederik Himpe 2009-12-12 20:52:21 UTC

Created attachment 39012 [details]
Useless "recent notifications" pop-up, makes it look like two different notifications are shown to user

Comment 2 Cédric Bellegarde 2010-01-17 20:41:25 UTC

I agree, this window is really annoying with apps like amarok... And there is no way to disable it...

So when listening to music, i have to close it every song... Really bad :(

Comment 3 vivaelamor84 2010-01-18 19:32:37 UTC

Confirmed here, seems silly for the recent notifications box to appear at all unless you click on the notify icon manually.

Comment 4 Cédric Bellegarde 2010-01-24 21:13:57 UTC

I agree, should be only visible by clicking on "i" systray

Comment 5 Cédric Bellegarde 2010-01-24 21:16:41 UTC

I think there should be an option to disable notification history

Comment 6 Cédric Bellegarde 2010-01-26 22:28:44 UTC

Created attachment 40273 [details]
Add an option to Enable/disable history

Here a patch that fix the problem by adding an option to disable history and to have 4.3 behaviour again ;)

Comment 7 pl4cek 2010-01-26 23:37:40 UTC

Completely agree, this can be really annoying;/

Comment 8 Panos 2010-01-27 00:14:32 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 9 Mirza 2010-01-27 00:28:15 UTC

is there any way this gets fixed before final KDE 4.4 release..?

Comment 10 Cédric Bellegarde 2010-01-27 02:58:23 UTC

Created attachment 40279 [details]
New patch version, fix empty notification (bug with kopete)

There is a bug in my patch where kopete popup don't close notification correctly.

Looking at this.

Comment 11 Cédric Bellegarde 2010-01-27 17:51:10 UTC

Created attachment 40290 [details]
Add an option to Enable/disable history

Fix empty notification, it works.

Comment 12 Cédric Bellegarde 2010-01-27 17:52:18 UTC

Created attachment 40291 [details]
Same patch for TRUNK

Same patch for trunk with new scroll widget...

It's proof of concept, no build, no test, i haven't trunk ;)

Comment 13 Panagiotis Papadopoulos 2010-01-27 22:00:36 UTC

I also think that the current behaviour is not optimal. I'll try to see if I can come up with something better :-)

Comment 14 Lukas Dolezal 2010-01-30 18:20:10 UTC

I think that best would be just don't show "recent notification" stripe when showing regular application notification.

:)

Comment 15 Marco Martin 2010-02-03 11:51:29 UTC

fixed in trunk

Comment 16 Lukas Dolezal 2010-02-12 12:16:03 UTC

Still active in 4.4.0 :(

Comment 17 Lukas Dolezal 2010-03-18 19:12:09 UTC

Still in 4.4.1. Or I didn't understand what did you mean by "fixed in trunk" :(

Comment 18 Cédric Bellegarde 2010-03-19 08:52:45 UTC

TRUNK is kde 4.5.

It's fixed in trunk.

I now use colibri and wait for kde 4.5 ;)

Comment 19 Lukas Dolezal 2010-03-19 10:20:12 UTC

Ok, but this fix was released in 4.4 RC time, why it wasn't backported into 4.4.0 nor 4.4.1?.. But what to do :) So I will see it in 4.5 :)

And thank you for tip to colibri :)

Comment 20 Cédric Bellegarde 2010-03-19 11:31:28 UTC

In fact, it's fixed because there is a new notification scroll widget so it can't go in a stable release.