Bug 285199

Summary:	Can't disable KDE Notifications for Rhythmbox (plasma widget)
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Pas <pasthelod>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	cfeck
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Pas 2011-10-28 17:48:15 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.7.2) 
OS:                Linux

Hello,

I've a simply Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric) install. Started as 11.04, then I just installed kubuntu-desktop onto it. I use Rhythmbox (a music player) that somehow triggers notifications on track changes that the Notifications plasma widget faithfully displays. I'd rather if it didn't.

There's no Rhythmbox (or other general, or gnome specific) source in System Settings' Notifications panel, so I can't disable there. And the widget offers very few settings.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Install Ubuntu 10.04, apt-get install kubuntu-desktop, then upgrade to 11.10. Start Rhythmbox (add at least 2 music files into the queue), wait for track change.

Actual Results:  
the Notifications plasma widget sitting on my panel uses a pop-up to inform me of this track change, and there's currently no way to disable this pop-up besides disabling the whole notifications widget.

Expected Results:  
More fine grained control for notifications, and/or better control via the System Settings' Notifications panel.

freespacenotifier - 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu1
gir1.2-notify-0.7 - 0.7.4-1
kubuntu-notification-helper - 11.10ubuntu1
libevent-1.4-2 - 1.4.14b-stable-0ubuntu1
libevent-2.0-5 - 2.0.12-stable-1
libknotifyconfig4 - 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu2
libnotify-bin - 0.7.4-1
libnotify0.4-cil - 0.4.0~r3032-3build1
libnotify1 - 0.5.0-2ubuntu1
libnotify4 - 0.7.4-1
libstartup-notification0 - 0.12-1
libzephyr4 - 3.0.1-1
muon-notifier - 1.2.1-0ubuntu1
notification-daemon - 0.7.1-4
notify-osd - 0.9.32-0ubuntu3
notify-osd-icons - 0.7
python-notify - 0.1.1-2ubuntu2
python-pyinotify - 0.9.1-1ubuntu1
update-notifier - 0.117ubuntu3.1
update-notifier-common - 0.117ubuntu3.1
vlc-plugin-notify - 1.1.12-2~oneiric1

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2011-10-29 12:20:43 UTC

http://library.gnome.org/users/rhythmbox/unstable/notification.html.en says

"The notification window can be disabled by deselecting the Show Notifications option from the context menu of the icon in the notification area."

If this does not work as advertised, please report to Rhythmbox developers via http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/

Comment 2 Pas 2011-10-30 11:49:49 UTC

Hello,

Thank you for the fast response. 

There is no icon for Rhythmbox in the notification area.

And actually the same thing is happening for Empathy. (Not listed in Application and System Notifications, yet the widget is displaying them. But at least that has a proper Preferences panel with Notifications tab, and it can "dock" into the notification area.)