Bug 220485

Version:            (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

As posted here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220447
When using KDE4.3.3, the volume bar's display causes annoyances. Here's the copy/pasted original bug report:

When I see a full-screen flash video, and I try to adjust the volume using the multimedia keys, the volume bar appears and takes the "focus", because (I assume) the volume bar has requested to be on top of all other windows, and because the Flash plugin has this very annoying behavior to exit the full screen mode at the slightest disturbance of this kind. Thus I'd like to be able to prevent the volume bar from appearing. But there might be another solution: when a full-screen flash video is playing, and some other event happens (contacts comes online, etc), the notification window appears (in its transparent glory) but Flash doesn't change back to non-fullscreen mode. This only happens when I use the Ayatana notifications in the system tray preferences; I guess the Ayatana notifications aren't displayed using the same method as the volume bar. So it would be sweet if the volume bar used that same method in order not to disrupt Flash. Or better yet: Use the Ayatana notification system when changing the volume, like Ubuntu does (this would only happen if the user has chosen Ayatana notifications of course). And while we're on the topic on the volume bar, could it also be semi-transparent? :D

I originally reported the bug for KDE4.3.3, as instructed by my corresponding forum topic here: http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=84754#p142200
However, that same post (by bcooksley) confirms that this problem is still present in KDE4.4, despite the changes to the volume bar in KDE4.4. Thus, as Christian Esken requested in the original bug report, I am opening a new bug report about the same issue, but for KDE4.4.